Advance Care Planning

Singh S, Dafoe A, Cagle J, Messersmith WA, Kessler ER, et al.

Respect for the patient-oncologist relationship may limit serious illness communication by acute and postacute care clinicians after discharge to a skilled nursing facility.

JCO Oncol Pract 2024;21:163-169 (see also Lage editorial)

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Lage DE, Blinderman CD, Grudzen CR.

“Rehabbed to Death” in oncology: where do we go from here.

JCO Oncol Pract 2024;21:107-109 (editorial in response to Singh 2025 paper)

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Agaronnik ND, Davis J, Manz CM, Tulsky JA, Lindvall C.

Large language models to identify advance care planning in patients with advanced cancer.

J Pain Symptom Manage 2025;69:243-250

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Zupanc SN, Durieux BN, Walling AM, et al

Bolstering advance care planning measurement using natural language processing.

J Palliat Med 2024;447-450

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Burry N, Nakagawa Shunichi S, Burry N, Nakagawa S, Blinderman CD.

“You are not alone”: the allure and limitations of artificial intelligence in serious illness communication.

J Palliat Med 2024;27:7-9

Comments from Dr. Abrahm:
Authors in both papers discuss the risks and benefits of “conversational agents”: i.e. chatbots, for patients requiring palliative care services.

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Schenker Y, Abdullah S, Arnold R, et al

Conversational agents in palliative care: potential benefits, risks, and next steps.

J Palliat Med 2024;27:296-300

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About Dr. Abrahm

Janet Abrahm, MD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is among the founders of Palliative Care in the United States and the author of four comprehensive books on supportive and palliative care for patients with cancer. Dr. Abrahm is a former practicing oncologist who created the Palliative Care Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute over 20 years’ ago. She is an award-winning clinician and educator and continues to practice palliative care at Dana Farber.

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Dr. Abrahm's Book

Dr. Abrahm is the author of four comprehensive editions 
on supportive and palliative care for patients with cancer, the first published in 2000 and the latest in 2022.

Her extensive work offers oncologists and other oncology and palliative care clinicians a place to turn to find the most up-to-date evidence-based practices, resources, and practical advice on how to care for patients across the full range of issues they will experience during their illness.

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