Duke Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Research Group

The purpose of this project is to bring together proceduralists from Medicine (e.g. Gastroenterology), Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology and Interventional Radiology, Palliative Medicine experts, and methodologists to address the gaps in knowledge for palliative procedures. Topics could include real-world effectiveness of palliative procedures, optimal communication of management options to patients and families (e.g. surgery, endoscopy, interventional radiology, no intervention), and patient preferences for different approaches to palliation (e.g. conjoint analysis, stated choice/preference, discrete-choice experiment).