The Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a palliative care tool
that contains standardized, actionable medical orders. It is designed to ensure that patient …

Summary Background Shared Decision-Making (SDM) between patients and clinicians is
increasingly considered important. Treament Escalation Plans (TEP) are individualised …

Importance Many clinical trial outcomes are documented in free-text electronic health
records (EHRs), making manual data collection costly and infeasible at scale. Natural …

Background: Surrogate decision makers are required to make difficult end-of-life decisions
with little preparation. Little is known about what surrogates may need to adequately prepare …

Importance High-quality goals-of-care communication is critical to delivering goal-
concordant, patient-centered care to hospitalized patients with chronic life-limiting illness …

Background Goals of care (GOC) documentation is important but underused. We aimed to
improve oncologist GOC documentation and end‐of‐life (EOL) care. Methods In April 2020 …

Importance Goal-concordant care is an ongoing challenge in hospital settings. Identification
of high mortality risk within 30 days may call attention to the need to have serious illness …

Importance There is widespread consensus on the challenges to meeting the end-of-life
wishes of decedents in the US. However, there is broad but not always recognized success …

Intensive care unit (ICU) admissions are often accompanied by many physical and
existential pressure points that can be extraordinarily wearing on patients and their families …

Context Despite the known importance of culturally tailored palliative care (PC), American
Indian people (AIs) in the Great Plains lack access to such services. While clinicians caring …