ReviewTrends in cardiovascular medicine2016
How to discuss goals of care with patients.
Review in Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- Goals of Care Discussions in Medical Training: Integrating Palliative Care for Holistic, Patient-Centered Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Providing a safety net: a qualitative study on supporting medical students during goals of care discussions.Canadian medical education journal · 2026Article
- Use of a Delphi process to formulate a pragmatic framework for care planning in older adults with advanced bladder cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review on Goals of Care Discussions in Surgery: How Are We Doing and How Can We Do Better?World journal of surgery · 2025Article
- Emergency department early mortality model for patients admitted after presenting to a tertiary medical center emergency department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
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- Approaches to Reach Trustworthy Patient Education: A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Goals-of-care discussion in older adults: a clinical and ethical approach.Singapore medical journal · 2024Article
- Impact of patient-centered communication on patient satisfaction scores in patients with chronic life-limiting illnesses: an experience from Kenya.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The goals of care in acute setting for geriatric patients in case of a hip fracture.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023Article
- Delivering Prognostic News to Older People with Chronic Disease: What Format Preference and Level of Involvement in Decision Making? A Hospital Survey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Video tools in pediatric goals of care communication: A systematic review.PEC innovation · 2022Review
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- Safe Hugs in Palliative Care.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2022Article
- Interdisciplinary staff perceptions of advance care planning in long-term care homes: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Patient and provider perspectives on using goal attainment scaling in care planning for older adults with complex needs.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2022Article
- Health Professionals' Perspectives of the Role of Palliative Care During COVID-19: Content Analysis of Articles and Blogs Posted on Twitter.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Article
- Older adult and family caregiver preferences for emergency department based-palliative care: An experience-based co-design study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2021Article
- Complex conversations in a healthcare setting: experiences from an interprofessional workshop on clinician-patient communication skills.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Code status at time of rapid response activation - Impact on escalation of care?Resuscitation plus · 2021Article
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Abstract
Effective communication with patients and their caregivers continues to form the basis of a constructive clinician-patient relationship and is critical to provide patient-centered care. Engaging patients in meaningful, empathic communication not only fulfills an ethical imperative for our work as clinicians but also leads to increased patient satisfaction with their own care and improved clinical outcomes. While these same imperatives and benefits exist for discussing goals of care and end-of-life, communicating with patients about these topics can be particularly daunting. While clinicians receive extensive training on how to identify and treat illness, communication techniques, especially those centering around emotion-laden topics such as end-of-life care, receive short shrift medical education. Fortunately, communication techniques can be taught and learned through deliberate practice, and in this article, we seek to discuss a framework, drawn from published literature and our own experience, for approaching goals-of-care discussions in patients with cardiovascular disease.
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