… goal setting is an important part of palliative care but that it can be difficult to do. Our findings
revealed a gap between the goals … with those that participants perceived the professionals …

… change perceptions of both goals and concordance of goals with treatments, and differentially
so over time. With prospective reporting of the perceived concordance between goals and …

… who received early palliative care. The aims of … perceptions of prognosis and goals of cancer
therapy; to examine the effect of early palliative care services on patient illness perceptions …

… Our data cannot address how individual patient and family perceptions and preferences
before the PC consultation influenced the observed patterns of goal communication. …

… The perceptions about how to interpret palliative care differed as well as when palliative care
… for decision-making, caregiving and preparation in palliative care. The challenge is to use …

… A patient set goal, perhaps perceived as unrealistic by their healthcare professionals, may
help the person understand what is – and is not – manageable, and scale back accordingly. …

… As a result, many patients may require palliative care on general hospital wards, and how
general nurses understand or interpret the goals of palliative care may determine, at least in …

… Goal-concordant care (GCC) is defined as care aligned with a patient's known goals and
values, and has been proposed as a marker of quality care at the end of life (EOL). Measuring …

… In addition, curative and palliative care goals are often perceived as … deliver palliative care
would be predicted by their own care goals, but not their predictions about their patients’ goals…

… is a primary component of goals of care conversations in palliative care (PC) practice. Little
is … care, and they frequently focused on particular goals or outcomes that were perceived by …