Systematic Review of Prognostic Understanding Interventions for Advanced Cancer Patients

A 2025 systematic review identified 13 unique intervention studies involving 1,780 cancer patients, published from 1990 to February 2025. The review, conducted by Li Dong, synthesized evidence on interventions like decision aids and prognostic discussions aimed at improving prognostic understanding. The findings are compiled in a document file available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify effective intervention types for improving prognostic understanding based on the review's narrative synthesis.
• Inform the design of future clinical trials based on the review's analysis of randomized controlled designs.
• Support evidence-based recommendations for clinical practice based on the review's conclusions.
• Analyze the methodological quality of existing studies based on the reported use of Cochrane risk-of-bias tools.

Strengths

• Systematic methodology following PRISMA guidelines and searching four major databases.
• Includes quantitative data from 13 studies with a total of 1,780 patient participants.
• Risk of bias was independently assessed by two reviewers using standardized tools.

Limitations

• The core data is a review document (18.2 KB DOCX); the underlying study data is not directly provided.
• Row count and column-level documentation for the synthesized data are unknown.
• The review's conclusions indicate most interventions failed to improve understanding, highlighting a limited evidence base.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Li Dong.

Collection Method

Systematic review of peer-reviewed articles from Embase, Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science.

Time Range

Studies published from 1990 to February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:04:54.