Advance care planning and longer survival in the terminally ill: a randomised controlled trial unexpected finding

BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2020 Jun;10(2):221-222. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001906. Epub 2019 Dec 10.

Authors

Mette Asbjoern Neergaard¹, Marianne Hjorth Skorstengaard², Trine Brogaard³, Elisabeth Bendstrup⁴, Anders Løkke⁴, Susanne Aagaard⁵, Henrik Wiggers⁵, Pernille Andreassen², Anders Bonde Jensen²

Affiliations

¹ Palliative Care Unit, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark mettneer@rm.dk.
² Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
³ Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

PMID: 31822479
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001906

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; heart failure; terminal care.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT01944813