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- Title
Association of goals of care meetings for hospitalized cancer patients at risk for critical care with patient outcomes.
- Authors
Apostol, Colleen C; Waldfogel, Julie M; Pfoh, Elizabeth R; List, Donald; Billing, Lynn S; Nesbit, Suzanne A; Dy, Sydney Morss
- Abstract
The article discusses a study conducted to describe the use of goals of care meetings in patients with advanced or refractory cancer at risk for critical care interventions. Topics discussed include study design and analysis of study, goals of care meetings in providing usual care team and palliative care, and improving concordance between patients' preferences and health care utilization.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; COMMUNICATION; FISHER exact test; PALLIATIVE treatment; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; ADVANCE directives (Medical care); DATA analysis; DISCHARGE planning; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 4, p386
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314560800