Email reminders encourage end-of-life talks

(Reuters) – Email alerts may encourage cancer doctors to talk with terminally ill patients about their end-of-life wishes and to record those preferences in their medical records, according to a U.S. study. Oncologists who were reminded each time one of their patients started a new chemotherapy regimen were more than twice as likely to note patients’ wishes before they became very sick, said researchers in a report published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. …