Cancer, Copd, Dementia, Heart Failure
Conditions
Keywords
palliative care
Brief summary
The goal-concordant care lab will develop and test strategies to optimize communication in advanced serious illness.
Detailed description
The goal-concordant care lab will develop and test strategies to optimize communication in advanced serious illness. The lab will test a variety of interventions, including triggered conversations and feedback to healthcare providers.
Interventions
Providers will receive detailed feedback about the timing, quality, and frequency of their goals of care communication with patients
Sponsors
Study design
Intervention model description
Several interventions will be tested, at the patient and provider levels
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Duke Health patient
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Frequency of goals of care communication | 2 years | Frequency of goals of care conversations in the last 6 months of life |
| Timing of goals of care communication | 6 months | Proximity of goals of care communication to death |
Countries
United States