Empower Seriously Ill Older Adults to Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most seriously ill older adults visit the emergency department (ED) near the end of life, yet no feasible method exists to empower them to formulate their care goals in this setting.

Objective

To develop an intervention to empower seriously ill older adults to formulate their future care goals in the ED.

Design

Prospective intervention development study.

Setting

In a single, urban, academic ED, we refined the prototype intervention with ED clinicians and patient advisors. We tested the intervention for its acceptability in English-speaking patients ≥65 years old with serious illness or patients whose treating ED clinician answered "No" to the "surprise question" ("would not be surprised if died in the next 12 months"). We excluded patients with advan

SUBMITTER: Ouchi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391608 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature