Opinion statement Specialists in palliative care view the family meeting as a means to
engage patients and their families in a serious illness discussion that may clarify the values …

Abstract Context The Preference-Aligned Communication and Treatment (PACT) Project is a
multisite quality improvement effort that has been shown to increase the frequency of goals …

Contemporary increases in chronic-and terminal-diagnoses among adults creates a
demand for medical family therapists (MedFTs) to better-assist ill parents in preparing for …

Background Patients living with serious illness generally want their physicians to facilitate
Goals of Care conversations (GoCc), yet physicians may lack time and skills to engage in …

Growing evidence supports the benefits of serious illness communication including goals of
care (GOC) discussions and documentation in the electronic health record (EHR). Patients …

As part of investigating staff nurses' reluctance to have serious illness conversations (SIC) at
a local hospital, an educational deficit was noted. Nurses articulated they felt uneducated …

Abstract According to the United States Census Bureau (2020), about 7% of the current adult
population in the US previously served in the armed forces. The US Department of Veterans …

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of a brief educational module on the self-reported
knowledge, confidence, and intent of generalist clinicians to conduct goals-of-care …