Preventing Readmissions Through Effective Partnerships-Communication and Palliative Care (PREP-CPC): A Multisite Intervention for Encouraging Goals of Care Conversations for Hospitalized Patients Facing Serious Illness.

CONCLUSIONS: The PREP-CPC pilot successfully engaged a diverse set of hospitals to participate in quality improvement collaborative promoting primary palliative care and more frequent GOC conversations. This initiative revealed several lessons that should guide future interventions. PMID: 31795732 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31795732?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - December 3, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gradwohl K, Wood GJ, Clepp RK, Rivnay L, Szmuilowicz E Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research