Background During the COVID‐19 pandemic, hospitals did not allow caregiver visitation.
Little is known about how caregivers' absence affected patients' care. Objective This study …

Context Goals-of-care discussions are important for patient-centered care among
hospitalized patients with serious illness. However, there are little data on the occurrence …

Background: Interventions with the potential for broad reach in ambulatory settings are
necessary to achieve a life course approach to advance care planning. Objective: To …

Introduction: Person-centered communication is foundational to cancer care. In pilot
research, a questionnaire eliciting patients' illness and treatment understanding (ITU) and …

Context The phrase “goals of care”(GOC) is common in serious illness care, yet it lacks
clarity and consistency. Understanding how GOC is used across healthcare contexts is an …

Background: The United States Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in
Health Care implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative throughout the …

Context/Objectives: It is paramount that clinicians assess and document patients' priorities to
guide goal-concordant interventions, especially during a public health crisis. Design …

Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often receive
burdensome care at end-of-life (EOL) and infrequently complete advance care planning …

Context The goals of care discussion (GOCD) has been positioned as an improvement
strategy to address discordance between care decisions made by seriously ill patients and …

Chronic complex illness/multimorbidity is a leading cause of death worldwide. Many people
with chronic complex illnesses die in hospital, with the overall quality of end-of-life care …