How close is your death? New algorithm can tell patients how long they have to live

Ottawa researchers are taking a page from Netflix and Google to help patients, their families and their doctors have informed conversations about death.
Researchers at Ottawa’s newly minted National Centre for Individualized Health have developed an algorithm that predicts how many months, or years, patients near the ends of their lives have to live.
It is information some people might not be comfortable with, acknowledged Dr. Peter Tanuseputro, an investigator at the Bruyère R