Patient-Driven Goals for High-Risk Hospitalized Patients (QI637)

Goals of care (GOC) discussions are not consistently occurring in hospitalized patients at high risk for rapid response activation (RRT) and intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, leading to unwanted ICU transfers.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kelly Pennington, Timothy Dempsey, Ann Vu, Courtney Stellpflug, Daniel Partain, Cory Ingram, Megan Dulohery Scrodin Source Type: research