<b>Initiating and Documenting Goals of Care Discussion in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers</b>: <b>A Quality Improvement Project in a Low Resource Setting</b>.

ABSTRACT: Patients with advanced malignancies often end up receiving aggressive interventions which are not aligned with their preferences especially during terminal stages. Discussing and documenting the goals of care (GOC) early in the course of the illness will help patients receive interventions based on their preferences. In resource-constrained settings such as our institution, a regional cancer center in India, a lower-middle socioeconomic country, this also enables effective utilization of life-saving equipment and Intensive care unit care. Since we did not have a standard GOC discussion and documentation process, we initiated a quality improvement (QI) project. This QI initiative was done using the A3 methodology between September 2023 to May 2024 and it was followed up till March 2025. For

SUBMITTER: Joseph Thangasamy DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670709 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature