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 …

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of
recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a …

Importance In advanced dementia, goals of care decisions are challenging and medical
care is often more intensive than desired. Objective To test a goals of care (GOC) decision …

Context Measuring quality of hospice and palliative care is critical for evaluating and
improving care, but no standard US quality indicator set exists. Objectives The Measuring …

late referral, family members reported that physicians were a barrier to earlier hospice
referral. 19 It can be difficult to determine when to transition from nonhospice palliative care …

Background: There has been an increase in observational studies using health
administrative data to examine the nature, quality, and costs of care at life's end, particularly …

Previous research has noted that many persons are referred to hospice in the last days of
life. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization collaborated with Brown Medical …

Purpose: Dignity Therapy is a novel therapeutic intervention designed to address
psychosocial and existential distress among the terminally ill. This brief, individualized …

The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and
palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters …

As patients near the end of life, bereaved family members provide an important source of
evaluation of the care they receive. A study was conducted to identify which processes of …