Intervention to Promote Communication About Goals of Care for Hospitalized Patients With Serious Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Discussions about goals of care are important for high-quality palliative care yet are often lacking for hospitalized older patients with serious illness.

Objective

To evaluate a communication-priming intervention to promote goals-of-care discussions between clinicians and hospitalized older patients with serious illness.

Design, setting, and participants

A pragmatic, randomized clinical trial of a clinician-facing communication-priming intervention vs usual care was conducted at 3 US hospitals within 1 health care system, including a university, county, and community hospital. Eligible hospitalized patients were aged 55 years or older with any of the chronic illnesses used by the Dartmouth Atlas project to study end-of-life care or were aged 80 years or ol

SUBMITTER: Curtis JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10201405 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature