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In the latest of a monthly series in which patients and carers set the learning outcomes for readers, Alison Pearson asks healthcare staff to reconsider the concept of offering “false hope.” For more information about the series, contact Rosamund…

Objective To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. Design Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting Single centre study in a university hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Participants 309…

Kaptchuk et al investigate whether placebo effects can experimentally be separated into the response to three components--assessment and observation, a therapeutic ritual, and a supportive patient-practitioner relationship--and then progressively…

OBJECTIVE: To describe doctors' prognostic accuracy in terminally ill patients and to evaluate the determinants of that accuracy. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Five outpatient hospice programmes in Chicago. PARTICIPANTS: 343 doctors…
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