Pilot of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative Among Veterans With Serious Illness.

Karleen Frances GiannitrapaniAnne M WallingAriadna GarciaMaryBeth FogliaJill S LoweryNatalie LoDavid BekelmanCati Brown-JohnsonMarie HaverfieldNatalia FestaScott T ShreveRandall C GaleLisa Soleymani LehmannKarl A Lorenz

Published in: The American journal of hospice & palliative care (2020)

The pilot demonstrated that standardizing practices for eliciting and documenting GoCCs resulted in customized documentation of goals of care and LST decisions of a large number of seriously ill patients and established the feasibility of spreading standardized practices throughout a large integrated health care system.

Keyphrases

healthcare
end stage renal disease
primary care
quality improvement
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
study protocol
palliative care
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes
chronic pain