Physician Perspectives on Addressing Anti-Black Racism

CE Brown, AR Marshall, KL Cueva… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Uncertainty remains among clinicians regarding processes to address and
resolve conflict around anti-Black racism. Objective To elicit clinicians' perceptions of their …

[PDF][PDF] Promoting prognostic understanding and health equity for patients with advanced liver disease: using “best case/worst case”

NN Ufere, A El-Jawahri, C Ritchie, JC Lai… - Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conclusions The illness experience of patients with advanced liver disease and their
families is defined by uncertainty. There is a need to improve their prognostic understanding …

Advance care planning in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes

M LoCastro, C Sanapala, JH Mendler, S Norton… - Journal of geriatric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic
syndromes (MDS) have worse survival rates compared to younger patients, and experience …

Healthcare utilization and advance care planning among older adults across cognitive levels

Z Rahemi, A Malatyali, JDR Bacsu… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on healthcare utilization
among older adults with normal cognition and impaired cognition/dementia. Using datasets …

Oncologist perceptions of algorithm-based nudges to prompt early serious illness communication: a qualitative study

RB Parikh, CR Manz, MN Nelson, W Ferrell… - Journal of Palliative …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Background: Early serious illness conversations (SICs) about goals of care and prognosis
improve mood, quality of life, and end-of-life care quality. Algorithm-based behavioral …

Development and evaluation of serious illness conversation training for interprofessional primary care teams

S Izumi, D Caron, S Guay-Bélanger… - Journal of palliative …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background: Early advance care planning (ACP) conversations are essential to deliver
patient-centered care. While primary care is an ideal setting to initiate ACP, such as Serious …

The team-based serious illness care program, a qualitative evaluation of implementation and teaming

R Garcia, C Brown-Johnson, W Teuteberg… - Journal of pain and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context Earlier and more frequent serious illness conversations with patients allow clinical
teams to better align care with patients' goals and values. Nonphysician clinicians often …

The serious illness care program: implementing a key element of high-quality oncology care

P Kumar, J Paladino, PE Gabriel… - … Innovations in Care …, 2023 - catalyst.nejm.org
Patients with cancer often experience physical and psychosocial distress and receive care
that is unwanted or unwarranted, especially near the end of life. Serious illness …

The VA Life‐Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative: A qualitative analysis of veterans with advanced kidney disease

SPY Wong, MB Foglia, J Cohen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Documentation of patients' goals of care is integral to promoting goal‐
concordant care. In 2017, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched a system‐wide …

Adaptive care planning: a paradigm shift

SY Moody, CL Bell, EC Lindenberger… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A key challenge of implementing advance care planning lies in the fact that decisions made
in advance require patients and their family members to imagine what their clinical picture …