May 22, 2020

Development and Implementation of a Clinician-Facing Prognostic Communication Tool for Patients with COVID-19 and Critical Illness

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

• Survival data and descriptions of best- and worst-case clinical scenarios were used to create an online COVID-19 Prognostication Tool. The visual infographic tool includes prompts for clinician reflection to enhance awareness of cognitive biases that may affect their prognostic accuracy. 

Gibbon et al. (May 2020). Development and Implementation of a Clinician-Facing Prognostic Communication Tool for Patients with COVID-19 and Critical Illness. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.05.005