Background: Understanding a patient’s goals of care (GOC) during hospitalization is vital to provide patient centered care. Despite the known importance, little is known about the quality of GOC conversation documentation. The aim of this study is to examine discussion documentation in hospitalized general medicine (GM) patients prior to intensive care unit (ICU) transfer and [...]

Background: Providing patient centered care is a core value of all healthcare systems in our nation. However, having a code status discussion with patients and their families continues to be a challenging endeavor due to multiple factors such as competing priorities and time constraints, especially in the hospital setting. To improve code status discussion and [...]