How do we prepare our patients for decisions that will need to be made for end-of-life care?
End-of-life care discussions should occur early on in the patient's disease process and often …

Discussing End-of-Life Care With Your Patients | AAFP Advertisement search close brand
logo The conversation may not be easy, but your patients will be grateful. JERRY L. OLD, MD …

BACKGROUND: There is a strong impetus to improve the modern experience of dying in the
United States; however, there remains a limited understanding of provider-patient …

Case managers are crucial to any well-designed disease management program. However,
in the progressive course of serious illness, patients, their families, and MCOs need the skills …

Knowing what most patients consider to be quality care at the end of life can be useful when
discussing the subject of end-of-life care with patients and family members. To determine …

BACKGROUND. Issues in end-of-life care in the United States are receiving increasing
discussion in light of the aging population and the documented need to improve the quality …

In recent years, end-of-life care has been receiving attention in the lay and professional
press. Integral to the concerns for patient-centered supportive care is the need to focus on …

End-of-life decisions affect patients and their families at critical, inevitable points in the life
continuum. State-of-the-art technology and pharmaceuticals make it possible to extend life …

Strategies to Help Initiate and Maintain the End-of-Life Discussion With Patients and Family
Members Page 1 July-August 2012 • Vol. 21/No. 4 197 Susan Clabots, MSN, RN, PCCN, is …

# Hospital clinicians consider factors related to patients and family members to be the main
barriers to discussing goals of care with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families.# …