Practice Management

Researchers indicated that these findings demonstrate a need for interventions to improve prognostic understanding between older patients with advanced cancer, caregivers, and health care professionals.

A study led by researchers from A City of Hope found that there is not a significant enough effort being made to representing older adults with cancer in clinical trial populations for new cancer drugs.

An intervention that delivered machine learning mortality predictions with behavioral nudges to oncology clinicians significantly increased the rate of serious illness conversations among all patients included in this study.