Role of allied health care professionals in goals-of-care discussions with hospitalized patients and perceived barriers: a cross-sectional survey

L Martin, A Patel, K Piggott, A Wong, A Patel… - … Open Access Journal, 2018 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Allied health care professionals can contribute meaningfully to goals-of-care
discussions with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families. We sought to explore …

Barriers to goals of care discussions with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families: a multicenter survey of clinicians

JJ You, J Downar, RA Fowler… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Seriously ill hospitalized patients have identified communication and decision
making about goals of care as high priorities for quality improvement in end-of-life care …

Differences in goals of care discussion outcomes among healthcare professionals: an observational cross-sectional study

K Ho, K Wang, A Clay, E Gibbings - Palliative Medicine, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Goals of care discussions ensure patients receive the care that they want.
Recent studies have recognized the opportunity for allied health professionals, such as …

What really matters in end-of-life discussions? Perspectives of patients in hospital with serious illness and their families

JJ You, P Dodek, F Lamontagne, J Downar, T Sinuff… - Cmaj, 2014 - Can Med Assoc
Background: The guideline-recommended elements to include in discussions about goals of
care with patients with serious illness are mostly based on expert opinion. We sought to …

[HTML][HTML] A multicenter study to identify clinician barriers to participating in goals of care discussions in long-term care

HYH Siu, D Elston, N Arora, A Vahrmeyer… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Long-term care (LTC) is an important setting for goals of care (GoC) discussions.
Understanding clinician barriers to GoC discussions could identify opportunities for LTC …

Goals of care discussions in acute hospital admissions–qualitative description of perspectives from patients, family and their doctors

E Harris, D Eng, QK Ang, E Clarke, A Sinha - Patient Education and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Goals of care discussions guide care for hospital inpatients at risk of deterioration.
We aimed to explore patient and family experience of goals of care during the first 72 h of …

Barriers and facilitators for goals of care discussions between residents and hospitalised patients

K Shah, M Swinton, JJ You - Postgraduate medical journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Purpose To observe how residents are engaging in goals of care discussions with patients
and identify thematic patterns that inhibited (barriers) and promoted discussion (facilitators) …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking silence: a survey of barriers to goals of care discussions from the perspective of oncology practitioners

KL Piggott, A Patel, A Wong, L Martin, A Patel, M Patel… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background Cancer is the leading cause of death in the developed world, and yet
healthcare practitioners infrequently discuss goals of care (GoC) with hospitalized cancer …

“Postponing it Any Later Would not be so Great”: A Cognitive Interview Study of How Physicians Decide to Initiate Goals of Care Discussions in the Hospital

E Chuang, S Gugliuzza, A Ahmad… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background There are missed opportunities to discuss goals and preferences for care with
seriously ill patients in the acute care setting. It is unknown which factors most influence …

[HTML][HTML] A qualitative exploration of seriously ill patients' experiences of goals of care discussions in Australian hospital settings

M O'Connor, KJ Watts, WD Kilburn… - Journal of General …, 2020 - Springer
Background Goals of care (GOC) is a communication and decision-making process that
occurs between a clinician and a patient (or surrogate decision-maker) during an episode of …