Delphi-endorsed Communication Skills Clinicians Need to Care for Hospitalized Incapacitated Patients

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Academy of Medicine recently identified improving clinicians’ serious illness communication skills as a necessary step in improving patient and family outcomes near the end of life, but there is not an accepted set of core communication skills for engaging with surrogate decision makers.

Objective

To determine the core serious illness communication skills clinicians should acquire to care for incapacitated, hospitalized patients with acute, life-threatening illness, including patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Methods

From January 2019 to July 2020, we conducted a modified Delphi study with a panel of 79 experts in the field of serious illness communication. We developed a preliminary list of candidate communication s

SUBMITTER: Butler R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9341473 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature