Intervention to Promote Communication About Goals of Care for Hospitalized Patients With Serious Illness
In a randomized clinical trial in JAMA, physicians and advance practice clinicians used a 'jumpstart guide' to prompt and guide goals-of-care discussions. The study found that among these patients, a pragmatic clinician-facing communication-priming intervention significantly improved documentation of goals-of-care discussions in the electronic health record, with a greater effect size in racially or ethnically minoritized patients.