Patients with advanced cancer generate 4 million visits annually to emergency departments
(EDs) and other dedicated, high‐acuity oncology urgent care centers. Because of both the …

The delivery of palliative care to patients with advanced cancer and their families, whether
done by oncology clinicians or palliative care clinicians, requires patient-centered …

Funding for the development of this Practice Guidance was provided by the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. MV was supported by aAQ19 Patient-Centered …

Caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) is challenging. The American
Geriatrics Society (AGS) previously developed The AGS Guiding Principles for the Care of …

Importance Health care may be burdensome and of uncertain benefit for older adults with
multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). Aligning health care with an individual's health priorities …

Importance Older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) vary in their health
outcome goals and the health care that they prefer to receive to achieve these goals …

Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to high numbers of
critically ill and dying patients in need of expert management of dyspnea, delirium, and …

Importance COVID-19 has disproportionately killed older adults and racial and ethnic
minority individuals, raising questions about the relevance of advance care planning (ACP) …

During the last 6 months of life, 75% of older adults with preexisting serious illness, such as
advanced heart failure, lung disease, and cancer, visit the emergency department (ED). ED …

As a clinician involved in caring for patients with serious illness, one frequently is tasked with
helping patients and their families navigate various points of the patient's illness trajectory …