Communication about serious illness care goals: a review and synthesis of best practices

RE Bernacki, SD Block - JAMA internal medicine, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
An understanding of patients' care goals in the context of a serious illness is an essential
element of high-quality care, allowing clinicians to align the care provided with what is most …

Advance care planning in the elderly

HD Lum, RL Sudore, DB Bekelman - Medical Clinics, 2015 - medical.theclinics.com
Advance care planning (ACP) allows individuals to specify in advance how they want to be
treated should serious illness prevent them from being able to make decisions or …

Assessment of natural language processing of electronic health records to measure goals-of-care discussions as a clinical trial outcome

RY Lee, EK Kross, J Torrence, KS Li, J Sibley… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Many clinical trial outcomes are documented in free-text electronic health
records (EHRs), making manual data collection costly and infeasible at scale. Natural …

Provider tools for advance care planning and goals of care discussions: a systematic review

J Myers, R Cosby, D Gzik, I Harle… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Advance care planning and goals of care discussions involve the exploration
of what is most important to a person, including their values and beliefs in preparation for …

Use of the physician orders for life‐sustaining treatment program in the clinical setting: a systematic review of the literature

SE Hickman, E Keevern… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a palliative care tool
that contains standardized, actionable medical orders. It is designed to ensure that patient …

Early integrated palliative care within a surgical oncology clinic

VV Bansal, D Kim, B Reddy, HDD Witmer… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Advance directive (AD) designation is an important component of advance care
planning (ACP) that helps align care with patient goals. However, it is underutilized in high …

Understanding and addressing challenges for advance care planning in the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the UK CovPall survey data from specialist palliative …

A Bradshaw, L Dunleavy, C Walshe… - Palliative …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Specialist palliative care services play an important role in conducting advance
care planning during COVID-19. Little is known about the challenges to advance care …

Improving communication about serious illness in primary care: a review

JR Lakin, SD Block, JA Billings… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-
led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients with serious and …

[HTML][HTML] Quality of life and cost of care at the end of life: the role of advance directives

MM Garrido, TA Balboni, PK Maciejewski, Y Bao… - Journal of pain and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Advance directives (ADs) are expected to improve patients' end-of-life
outcomes, but retrospective analyses, surrogate recall of patients' preferences, and selection …

Utilizing the electronic health record to improve advance care planning: a systematic review

MT Huber, JD Highland… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: Advance care planning may ensure care that is concordant with patient wishes.
However, advance care plans are frequently absent when needed due to failure to engage …