Background: Asking patients “what matters” to them is one of the 4 evidence-based elements of care developed by the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to improve the care of older adults, and the question “what matters most” has been extended to other settings. We conducted a study to assess the frequency and categories of responses to [...]

Background: Hospitalized patients often report that they lack the opportunity to share their priorities, and currently there is no standard protocol for hospitalists to elicit their patients’ priorities. Additionally, changes in 2025 to CMS reimbursement rules will require hospitals to have protocols for eliciting what matters to admitted patients, further necessitating the development of an [...]