Table 3.

Accurate prognostic awareness 3 months later by patients’ perception of disclosure of incurability

Disclosure of incurability	N	Unadjusted odds	95% CI	Adjusteda Odds	95% CI	AdjustedaP-value
Only recent	15	Reference		Reference		-
Only past	45	2.50	0.74-8.50	2.75	0.68-11.07	.15
Both recent and past	54	4.35	1.29-14.71	5.08	1.31-19.78	.019
Never	32	0.78	0.21-2.93	0.80	0.19-3.43	.76

Logistic regression models were used to assess the association between prognostic awareness (accurate/inaccurate) 3 months later and oncologist disclosure of incurability.

^a Adjusted for age (years), gender, education level (≥high school), performance status, patient health questionnaire 9 (≥10), comprehensive quality of life outcome and physician compassion questionnaire