Impact of a Novel Goals-of-Care Communication Skills Coaching Intervention for Practicing Oncologists.

ABSTRACT: Background: Oncologists routinely have opportunities for goals-of-care (GoC) discussions with patients. GoC discussions increase the likelihood that patients receive care consistent with their values. However, oncologists often feel ill-equipped to discuss end-of-life care. Objective: To assess the impact of a communication training and coaching intervention (INT) for oncologists during GoC discussions. Design: We randomized oncologists to usual care (UC) or a communication skills training INT, which consisted of an interactive training session and four joint visits with communication coaches. Setting/Subjects: Solid tumor oncologists seeing advanced cancer patients at four hospitals in New York and Connecticut. Measurements:

SUBMITTER: Annadurai V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8147509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature