Introducing Goals of Patient Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities to Decrease Hospitalization: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

The “Goals of Patient Care” (GOPC) process uses shared decision making to incorporate residents' prior advance care planning (ACP) or preferences into medical treatment orders, guiding health care decisions at a time of clinical deterioration should they be unable to voice their opinions. The object ive was to determine whether GOPC medical treatment orders were more effective than ACP alone in preventing emergency department (ED) visits (no hospitalization), ED visits (with hospitalization), and deaths outside the residential aged care facility (RACF).

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - August 13, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Ruth S. Martin, Barbara J. Hayes, Anastasia Hutchinson, Mark Tacey, Paul Yates, Wen Kwang Lim Tags: Original Study Source Type: research