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. 2016 Aug 25;11(8):e0161407. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161407

Table 1. Papers included in the review.

First Author Disease Number of estimates How accurate are clinicians? Are some clinicians more accurate than others?
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