Table 1. Papers included in the review.
First Author | Disease | Number of estimates | How accurate are clinicians? | Are some clinicians more accurate than others? | |||
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Categorical | Continuous | Probabilistic | Categorical | Continuous | |||
Addington-Hall [19] | Any | 1128 | X | X | |||
Brandt [40] | Any | 511 | X | ||||
Bruera [20] | Cancer | 94 | X | X | |||
Buchan [41] | Any | 13 | X | ||||
Casarett [42] | Any | 21074 | † | ||||
Fromme [45] | Any | 429 | X | ||||
Glare [46] | Cancer | 44 | X | ||||
Glare & Virik [34] | Any | 100 | X | ||||
Gripp [25] | Cancer | 580 | X | X | |||
Gwilliam [47] | Cancer | 987± | X | X | |||
Holmebakk [26] | Cancer | 243 | X | X | |||
Kao [49] | Cancer | 50 | X | ||||
Llobera [27] | Cancer | 600 | X | X | |||
Muers [54] | Cancer | 203 | X | X | |||
Selby [36] | Any | 36 | X | ||||
Shah [55] | Any | 248 | X | ||||
Stiel [56] | Any | 82 | X | ||||
Twomey [30] | Any | 126 | † | † | |||
Vigano [58] | Cancer | 233 | X | X | |||
Zibelman [60] | Any | 273 | X | ||||
Thomas [37] | Multiple** | 254 | X | ||||
Chow [21] | Cancer | 739 | X | X | |||
Chritakis [22] | Any | 468 | X | X | |||
Evans [33] | Cancer | 149 | X | ||||
Faris [44] | Cancer | 162 | X | ||||
Forster [24] | Any | 540 | X | X | |||
Heyse-Moore [38] | Cancer | 50 | X | X | |||
Higginson [48] | Cancer* | 275 | X | ||||
Lamont [51] | Cancer | 300 | X | ||||
Maltoni, ‘94 [31] | Cancer | 100 | X | X | |||
Maltoni, ‘95 [39] | Cancer | 530 | X | ||||
Morita [53] | Cancer | 150 | † | ||||
Oxenham [28] | Any | 30 | X | X | |||
Parkes [29] | Cancer | 74 | X | X | |||
Lam [50] | Cancer | 167 | X | ||||
Mackillop [52] | Cancer | 39 | † | ||||
Taniyama [57] | Cancer | 75 | X | ||||
Fairchild [23] | Cancer | 395 | X | X | † | X | |
Hui [35] | Cancer | 127 | X | X | X | X | X |
Cooper [43] | Liver Disease | 456 | X | ||||
Knaus [32] | Any | 4028 | X | ||||
Weeks [59] | Cancer | 917 | X |
*was originally all diseases but only cancer patients included in the analysis
**Cancer, COPD, Heart Failure
† Not included in analysis, narratively described ± Estimates from MDT data only