Preparing Patients and Providers for Serious Illness Conversations

Thompson-Martin, Laura

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Preparing Patients and Providers for Serious Illness Conversations

Thompson-Martin, Laura

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Abstract

There is an unmet need for early, high quality, and well-documented conversations about goals of care between patients with serious illnesses and their primary care providers. Colchester Family Medicine, as part of the University of Vermont Medical Group, is implementing a program to train its providers in structured goals of care conversations for patients with serious illnesses. However, there remains a need to prepare patients for these difficult conversations and provide appropriate resources. This project created a SmartPhrase to provide to patients, containing language and resources to help them prepare for serious illness conversations.