An understanding of patients' care goals in the context of a serious illness is an essential
element of high-quality care, allowing clinicians to align the care provided with what is most …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Shared decision making for advanced heart failure has become both more challenging and
more crucial as duration of disease and treatment options have increased. High-quality …

OBJECTIVE: Sharing qualitative research findings with participants, namely member-check,
is perceived as a procedure designed to enhance study credibility and participant …

At a time of controversy about a sick and aging population and fiscal constraint, honest
communication about choices and outcomes represents an important solution. Yet evidence …

Despite advances in cardiac therapy, heart failure (HF) remains a progressive, highly
symptomatic, and deadly disease that places great demands on patients, caregivers, and …

Background Communication between families and providers in the ICU affects patient and
family outcomes and use of health-care resources. Recent research studies have tested …

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies have addressed external factors associated
with difficulty in surrogate decision making, intrapersonal sources of tension are an …

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to symptom management, psychosocial
support, and assistance in treatment decision-making for patients with serious illness and …

Objectives To explore how family members of ICU patients at high risk of dying respond to
nursing communication strategies. Background Family members of ICU patients may face …