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Critical Conversations: Improving Goals Of Care Conversations At Southeast Family Medicine, Elizabeth Deyo, Michael Dirks, Tyler Nelson, Katherine Cobb, Nicholas Wolfgang, Hannah Kadavy, Ben Pederson
Critical Conversations: Improving Goals Of Care Conversations At Southeast Family Medicine, Elizabeth Deyo, Michael Dirks, Tyler Nelson, Katherine Cobb, Nicholas Wolfgang, Hannah Kadavy, Ben Pederson
Milwaukie Family Medicine 2021
Quality Improvement Project - Background
Introduction Goals of care (GOC) conversations are an essential element of high quality patient care across care contexts. At our residency clinic site, Southeast Family Medicine, there currently is not a standardized workflow that encourages and reminds providers to complete and document GOC discussions with their patients. Currently, end of life planning is tracked and monitored primarily through two tools: patient completion of advanced directives and POLST forms. Although these two documents are important, their use and application is at times to general or specific to truly reflect a patient’s perspective on their goals of …