Background: High-quality care for seriously ill patients aligns treatment with their goals and
values. Failure to achieve “goal-concordant” care is a medical error that can harm patients …

Background: Aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care is associated with lower quality of life and
greater regret about treatment decisions. Higher EOL costs are also associated with lower …

Racial disparities, including decreased hospice utilization, lower quality symptom
management, and poor-quality end-of-life care have been well documented in Black …

Background Whether surrogate decision makers regret decisions about the use of life
support for incapacitated, critically ill patients remain uncertain. We sought to determine the …

Background Conceptual ambiguities prevent advancements in end-of-life decision making
in clinical practice and research. Purpose To clarify the components of and stakeholders …

Background: The majority of Palliative Care (PC) clinicians report recently caring for a
person with a Substance Use Disorder (SUD). The impact of an untreated SUD is associated …

Objectives Discussions between health professionals and nursing home (NH) residents or
their families about the current or future goals of health care may be associated with better …

Background Decisional regret during or after medical treatments is linked to significant
distress. Regret affects not only patients but also caregivers having an active or passive role …

Background Many patients with a solid metastatic cancer are treated aggressively during
their last month of life. Using data from a large prospective cohort study of patients with an …

Objective To examine advance care planning (ACP) trends among an increasingly diverse
aging population, we compared informal and formal ACP use by race/ethnicity among US …