Thursday, 3 January 2013

Email reminders encourage end-of-life talks

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Email alerts may encourage cancer doctors to talk with terminally ill patients about their end-of-life wishes and to record those preferences in their medical records, a new study suggests. Oncologists who were reminded each time one of their patients started a new chemotherapy regimen were more than twice as likely to note patients' wishes before they became very sick, researchers found. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..


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