Patient Characteristics Associated With Occurrence of Preoperative Goals-of-Care Conversations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Communication about patients' goals and planned and potential treatment is central to advance care planning. Undertaking or confirming advance care plans is also essential to preoperative preparation, particularly among patients who are frail or will undergo high-risk surgery.

Objective

To evaluate the association between patient risk of hospitalization or death and goals-of-care conversations documented with a completed Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) Decisions Initiative note among veterans undergoing surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cross-sectional study included 190 040 veterans who underwent operations between January 1, 2017, and February 28, 2020. Statistical analysis took place from November 1, 2021, to November 17, 2022

SUBMITTER: Kim KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9912129 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature