Medical Economics February 19, 2025
Key Takeaways
- Standardized GOC documentation in EHRs improves access to patient preferences, aiding clinical decision-making across healthcare settings.
- Palliative care clinicians document patient values, legal decision-makers, and hospice discussions more thoroughly than other clinicians.
- Early and comprehensive GOC documentation by palliative care clinicians increases hospice enrollment and assesses decision-making capacity effectively.
- Telehealth programs, like virtual palliative care services, can expand the reach of structured GOC documentation.
Researchers find that structured, accessible GOC documentation enhances decision-making and patient care across health care settings.
A recent study by researchers from Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health (IU Health) shows that standardizing goals of care (GOC) documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) improves access to...
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