What Is The Goal of Care for This Patient? Documenting and Communicating Patient Goals of Care across Teams in ICU (QI820)

Providing goal concordant care in ICU settings can be challenging. Clinical status of patients fluctuates daily, often hourly, thus treatment options and goals of care could change accordingly. Complex conditions require involvement of multiple specialists and teams, and understanding of the patient's goals of care may be inconsistent among them. Nurses in an ICU experienced difficulty tracking multiple providers discussing with their patient and/or families and resulting goals of care decisions.

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