Association of goals of care meetings for hospitalized cancer patients at risk for critical care with patient outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caring for cancer patients with advanced and refractory disease requires communication about care preferences, particularly when patients become ill enough to be at risk for critical care interventions potentially inconsistent with their preferences.

Aim

To describe the use of goals of care discussions in patients with advanced/refractory cancer at risk for critical care interventions and evaluate associations between these discussions and outcomes.

Design

Cohort study describing patients/families' perceptions of goals of care meetings and comparing health care utilization outcomes of patients who did and did not have discussions.

Setting/participants

Inpatient units of an academic cancer center. Included patients had metastatic solid tumors or relap

SUBMITTER: Apostol CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4695974 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature