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Physicians reported that even if patients with cancer requested survival estimates, they would provide a frank estimate only 37% of the time and would provide no estimate, a conscious overestimate, or a conscious underestimate most of the time (63%)

No group accurately predicted the length of patient survival more than 50% of the time. Nursing and junior medical staff were most accurate while care assistants were least accurate. When in error, senior clinical staff tended to under-estimate survival.

Doctors are inaccurate in their prognoses for terminally ill patients and the error is systematically optimistic. These phenomena may be adversely affecting the quality of care given to patients near the end of life.