Content of Serious Illness Care conversation documentation is associated with goals of care orders-a quantitative evaluation in hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) increases quality of documentation about patients' values and priorities, but it is not known whether patient characteristics and goals of care are associated with the elements documented. The purpose of this study was to explore for associations between the quantity and type of elements documented after SICP conversations with patient characteristics and goals of care order.

Methods

Documentation of SICP conversations by internal medicine physicians with hospitalized patients was evaluated in a retrospective chart review between March 2018 to December 2019. The conversations occurred after SICP implementation in a Tertiary Hospital, Medical teaching unit which uses "Goals of Care Designation" (GCD) medical orders to communi

SUBMITTER: King S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9241276 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature