The emergency department (ED) provides immediate access to medical care for patients
and families in times of need. Increasingly, older patients with serious illness seek care in …

Importance Poor preoperative communication can have serious consequences, including
unwanted treatment and postoperative conflict. Objective To compare the effectiveness of a …

Methods| We conducted a prospective cohort study within the context of a randomized trial of
different approaches to decision-making about life support interventions that has previously …

Context Older and seriously ill Australians are often admitted to hospital in the last year of
their life. The extent to which these individuals have considered important aspects of end-of …

Importance An important aspect of high-quality care is ensuring that treatments are in
alignment with patient or surrogate decision-maker goals. Treatment discordant with patient …

Objective Our objective was to describe interventions that aim to improve communication of
prognosis to adult patients and to summarize the effect of interventions. Methods We …

Purpose: It has been shown that integrating palliative care (PC) in intensive care unit (ICU)
improves end-of-life care (EOLC), but very few Canadian hospitals have adopted this …

Objectives: To determine the effect of the Serious Illness Care Program on health care
utilization at the end of life in oncology. Design: Analysis of the secondary outcome of health …

Objective Evaluate trends in place of death for patients with head and neck cancers (HNC)
in the US from 1999 to 2017 based on the CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for …

Deciding between palliative and overly aggressive therapies for advanced cancer patients
who present to the emergency department (ED) with acute issues requires a prediction of …