Goals of care and COVID-19: A GOOD framework for dealing with uncertainty.
Palliat Support Care
; 18(4): 379-381, 2020 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-940882
ABSTRACT
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more patients will require palliative and end-of-life care. In order to ensure goal-concordant-care when possible, clinicians should initiate goals-of-care conversations among our most vulnerable patients and, ideally, among all patients. However, many non-palliative care clinicians face deep uncertainty in planning, conducting, and evaluating such interactions. We believe that specialists within palliative care are aptly positioned to address such uncertainties, and in this article offer a relevant update to a concise framework for clinicians to plan, conduct, and evaluate goals-of-care conversations the GOOD framework. Once familiar with this framework, palliative care clinicians may use it to educate their non-palliative care colleagues about a timely and critical component of care, now and beyond the COVID-19 era.
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Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Organizational Objectives
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Palliative Care
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Patient Care Planning
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Pneumonia, Viral
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Terminal Care
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Coronavirus Infections
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Uncertainty
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Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Palliat Support Care
Journal subject:
Therapeutics
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S1478951520000474
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