Implementing Goals-of-Care Conversations: Lessons From High- and Low-Performing Sites From a VA National Initiative
The Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Center for Ethics in Healthcare implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative, including policy and practice standards, clinician communication training, a documentation template, and central implementation support to foster advance care planning via goals-of-care conversations for seriously ill veterans in 2014, spreading nationally to other Veterans Health Affairs (VA) sites in 2017.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Cati Brown-Johnson, Marie C. Haverfield, Karleen F. Giannitrapani, Natalie Lo, Jill S. Lowery, Mary Beth Foglia, Anne M. Walling, David B. Bekelman, Scott T. Shreve, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Karl A. Lorenz Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
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