How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life's End? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Interventions near patients' deaths in the United States are often expensive, burdensome, and inconsistent with patients' goals and preferences. For patients and their loved ones to make informed care decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs. This commentary on a case discusses strategies for sharing such information and suggests that properly designed advance care planning incentives can help improve communication and decision sharing.

publication date

  • November 1, 2022

Research

keywords

  • Advance Care Planning
  • Physicians
  • Terminal Care

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC9811733

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1040

PubMed ID

  • 36342486

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 11