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Emergency Palliative Care: Nongoal Concordant Care and Time-Limited Trials in the Emergency Department

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: When advance care plans are not communicated or goals are in conflict, significant family and clinician distress may result. The distress is especially high when potentially nongoal concordant care is expected by surrogates in the emergency department (ED). To demonstrate the effect of off-hour, phone consultations by palliative care clinicians in reducing the family and clinician distress when nongoal concordant care is expected in the ED. A partnership between palliative care and emergency medicine can decrease the burden of decision making and provide opportunities for modeling a goals-of-care discussion by experts in this important procedure.

Source: Journal of Palliative Medicine

DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2023.0371

Authors: Kei Ouchi, Emily L. Aaronson, Kirsten G. Engel, David Wang, Corita R. Grudzen, on behalf of the Emergency Palliative Care Working Group