Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of early end-of-life care discussions with
patients with life-threatening illness and their families. However, these conversations often …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) intends to support person-centered medical decision-
making by eliciting patient preferences. Research has not identified significant associations …

Importance Seriously ill hospitalized patients have identified communication and decision
making about goals of care as high priorities for quality improvement in end-of-life care …

Background Although patient-centred care has become increasingly important across all
medical specialties, when it comes to end of life care, research has shown that treatments …

Background: Treatment decisions commonly have to be made in intensive care units (ICUs).
These decisions are difficult for surrogate decision makers and often lead to decisional …

Background: Specialist palliative care services play an important role in conducting advance
care planning during COVID-19. Little is known about the challenges to advance care …

Purpose End-of-life (EOL) care is considered to be inherently difficult and vulnerable for
patients and nurses. It also seems hard to develop passion for care during these problematic …

Purpose: Advance care planning may ensure care that is concordant with patient wishes.
However, advance care plans are frequently absent when needed due to failure to engage …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) facilitates identification and documentation of
patients' treatment preferences. Its goal aligns with that of palliative care–optimizing quality …

Objective: Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty
about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we …