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However, the most appropriate schedule for patient referral is still to be determined. Scores and criteria are debated, with uncontrolled symptoms (pain, dyspnoea, distress, etc) being one of the main indicators. These symptoms are also the leading causes for patients with cancer to seek care in emergency units. Several studies in North America suggested that referral to palliative care from emergency units is feasible and efficient.<\/jats:p>\n The aim of this study is to determine if systematic early referral to palliative care in a context of emergency reduces aggressiveness of care near the end of life compared with referral on medical team request.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods and analysis<\/jats:title>\n This multicentric randomised study plans to enrol patients with a PALLIA-10 score >3 attending unscheduled on-site visits in French comprehensive cancer centres, and allocate them to randomisation (1:1) to receive palliative care systematically (experimental group) or on medical oncology team request (standard group). The primary objective is to compare the proportion of patients meeting at least one criterion of clinical care aggressiveness near the end of life, in each group. Secondary objectives include a description of clinical care aggressiveness components, palliative care requirement (psychologist, social worker, nutritional counselling, etc), patient-reported outcomes (FACT-G7, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Edmonton Symptoms Assessment System), the place of death and overall survival. Health economics and human and social sciences substudies will be presented.<\/jats:p>\n The study needs to include 192 patients (96 patients per arm) to reach a 20% decrease in care aggressiveness in the last month of life from 65% to 45%, with a statistical power of 80%, and a 2-sided type I error rate of 5%, using systematic referral. 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