There is considerable controversy over the ability of physicians to estimate life
expectancy. In this manuscript, we demonstrate that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN)
score can be used to improve estimates of 5-year life expectancy in men diagnosed
with prostate cancer in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The CAN score has
several advantages. First, repurposing an already available tool does simplify efforts
to implement the CAN score into routine clinical practice within the VHA system. Second,
it incorporates key variables that are commonly available in electronic health records
systems and therefore could be replicated in other institutions. It is easy to imagine
how tools like the CAN score could be tailored to unique populations of patients,
and to specific health care systems.
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Accepted:
May 9,
2021
Received:
March 9,
2021
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