Goals-of-Care Conversations: 3 Ways to Improve Your Skills
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Goals-of-Care Conversations: 3 Ways to Improve Your Skills
Published October 15, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoals-of-care conversations help patients with serious illness clarify what they value most and what they hope to see happens with their medical care. Clinicians can use this information to formulate a plan of care around a patient’s values and preferences. Quite often, patients – particularly if they have recently been diagnosed with an illness or[…]
Why Palliative Care Teams are Vital During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published May 27, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe COVID-19 crisis has shed new light on the critical role of palliative care teams. As hospital-based doctors and nurses deal with new and unanticipated ways of delivering medical care, palliative care clinicians are able to share their unique expertise to support patients, caregivers and providers. In a recent editorial, The Lancet pointed out that[…]