The utility of the surprise question: A useful tool for identifying patients nearing the last phase of life? A systematic review and meta-analysis

EVTJ van Lummel, L Ietswaard… - Palliative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The surprise question is widely used to identify patients nearing the last phase
of life. Potential differences in accuracy between timeframe, patient subgroups and type of …

The Surprise Question and clinician-predicted prognosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

A Gupta, R Burgess, M Drozd, J Gierula… - BMJ supportive & …, 2025 - spcare.bmj.com
Background The Surprise Question,'Would you be surprised if this person died within the
next year?'is a simple tool that can be used by clinicians to identify people within the last …

Prospective comparison of medical oncologists and a machine learning model to predict 3-month mortality in patients with metastatic solid tumors

FJ Zachariah, LA Rossi, LM Roberts… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To date, oncologist and model prognostic performance have been assessed
independently and mostly retrospectively; however, how model prognostic performance …

The surprise question

MP Davis, E Vanenkevort - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2022 - spcare.bmj.com
A negative surprise question (I would not be surprised if this patient died within the
year)(NSQ) was not originally intended as a prognostic tool but as a means of selecting …

The prognostic value of the 12‐, 6‐, 3‐and 1‐month 'Surprise Question'in cancer patients: A prospective cohort study in three hospitals

A Stoppelenburg, M Arslan, C Owusuaa… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This prospective study aimed to evaluate the performance of the 'Surprise
Question'(SQ)'Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next 12 months?'in predicting …

[HTML][HTML] The value of the surprise question to predict one-year mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a prospective cohort study

CC Moor, NC Tak van Jaarsveld, C Owusuaa… - Respiration, 2021 - karger.com
Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive fatal disease with a
heterogeneous disease course. Timely initiation of palliative care is often lacking. The …

Incorporation of Palliative Care in Gynecologic Oncology

C Persenaire, DL Spinosa, LW Brubaker… - Current Oncology …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review serves to provide clarity on the nature, scope, and
benefits of early palliative care integration into the management of patients with gynecologic …

[HTML][HTML] Palliative care screening tools in the gynecologic oncology population: a narrative review

VJ Vetter - Annals of palliative medicine, 2022 - apm.amegroups.org
Methods: A literature search was conducted utilizing PubMed® and Excerpta Medica
database (EMBASE®). Search terms included various combinations of palliative care …

Too much too late? Optimizing treatment through conversations over years, months, and days

J Jacobsen, MEC Schelin, CJ Fürst - Acta Oncologica, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
According to ASCO guidelines, cancer-directed treatment should be avoided in the last
month of life. However, Mattsson et al.(this issue) demonstrate that 16% of Danish patients …

Validation of the Surprise Question and the Development of a Multivariable Model

M Davis, E Vanenkevort, A Young, M Wojtowicz… - Journal of Pain and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Context The Surprise Question (SQ)(would you be surprised if this patient died
within a year?) is a prognostic variable explored in chronic illnesses. Validation is limited to …