Background Development of electronic health record (EHR) prediction models to improve
palliative care delivery is on the rise, yet the clinical impact of such models has not been …

Hospital-free days (HFDs) is increasingly selected as the primary or secondary outcome in
clinical trials among critically and seriously ill patients. This outcome measure, alternatively …

Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion
rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people’s preferences in the …

Family support is more, not less, important during crisis. However, during the COVID-19
pandemic, maintaining public safety necessitates restricting the physical presence of families for …

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to surge in the
United States and globally. Objective: To describe the epidemiology of COVID-19–related …

Demand for palliative care has outstripped the supply of palliative care specialists. The
authors propose a research agenda organized around 5 key questions on the optimal …

Importance Increasing inpatient palliative care delivery is prioritized, but large-scale,
experimental evidence of its effectiveness is lacking. Objective To determine whether ordering …

Background: Patients with serious respiratory illness and their caregivers suffer considerable
burdens, and palliative care is a fundamental right for anyone who needs it. However, the …

ChatGPT is a large language model trained on text corpora and reinforced with human
supervision. Because ChatGPT can provide human-like responses to complex questions, it could …

Importance Despite a growing recognition of the increased mortality risk among sepsis survivors,
little is known about the patterns of end-of-life care among this population. Objective To …