Emergency department-based, nurse-initiated, serious illness conversation intervention for older adults: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Thidathit Prachanukool, Susan D. Block, Donna Berry, Rachel S. Lee, Sarah Rossmassler, Mohammad A. Hasdianda, Wei Wang, Rebecca Sudore, Mara A. Schonberg, James A. Tulsky & Kei Ouchi
Abstract Background Visits to the emergency department (ED) are inflection points in patients’ illness trajectories and are an underutilized setting to engage seriously ill patients in conversations about their goals of care. We developed an intervention (ED GOAL) that primes seriously ill patients to discuss their goals of care with their outpatient clinicians after leaving the ED. The aims of this study are (i) to test the impact of ED GOAL administered by trained nurses...
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