Evaluating Residents' Readiness to Elicit Advance Care Plans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trainees are responsible for conducting advance care discussions but are often stressed by this role.

Objective

We developed an instrument to determine whether residents could identify a clinical scenario that necessitated an examination of a patient's goals and preferences as they pertain to clinical care, and subsequently measured their readiness to engage in such discussions.

Methods

Participants responded verbally to open-ended case presentations and completed survey items. We scored responses according to proximity to idealized answers.

Results

The sample consisted of 44 internal medicine residents, 12 students, 5 hospitalists, and 3 palliative care attendings, all of whom volunteered for the study and participated in standard interviews. Reside

SUBMITTER: Levy D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4597945 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature