title: The palliative care triangle: a strategy to help make difficult surgical decisions.
authors: Section of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA. john.sutton2@va.gov
authors: John E
authors: JE
authors: Sutton
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D010358:Patient Participation; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011788:Quality of Life; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome