News & Events: ePrognosis

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH  discusses the exciting rollout of the EPrognosis website and  the decision to allow non-clinicians access to the site: Eprognosis is barely a week old, and we've already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors).  For perspective, GeriPal is about 3 years old, and in that time we've had 400,000 pageviews.  We've had loads of press, including 6 stories in the New York Times about prognosis and eprognosis (Stories by Paula Span here, here, here, here, and here.  Story by Pauline Chen in today's paper here.  For a more complete list of media stories, see [...]

The NY Times reports on UCSF's development of interactive tools informing the treatment decision  based on the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations : To help prevent overtesting and overtreatment of older patients — or undertreatment for those who remain robust at advanced ages — medical guidelines increasingly call for doctors to consider life expectancy as a factor in their decision-making. But clinicians, research has shown, are notoriously poor at predicting how many years their patients have left. Now, researchers at the University of [...]