Breaking silence: a survey of barriers to goals of care discussions from the perspective of oncology practitioners

Cancer is the leading cause of death in the developed world, and yet healthcare practitioners infrequently discuss goals of care (GoC) with hospitalized cancer patients. We sought to identify barriers to GoC d...

Source: BMC Cancer - February 8, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Katrina Lynn Piggott, Ameen Patel, Arthur Wong, Leslie Martin, Alexandra Patel, Matthew Patel, Yudong Liu, Sukhbinder Dhesy-Thind and John J. You Tags: Research article Source Type: research