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Improving Communication About Serious Illness in Primary Care: A Review.

Abstract：

IMPORTANCE:The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses. Studies suggest that these conversations are associated with improved outcomes for patients and their families, enhanced clinician satisfaction, and lower health care costs; however, the role of primary care clinicians in driving conversations about goals and priorities in serious illness is not well defined. OBJECTIVE:To present a review of a structured search of the evidence base about communication in serious illness in primary care. EVIDENCE REVIEW:MEDLINE was searched, via PubMed, on January 19, 2016, finding 911 articles; 126 articles were reviewed and selected titles were added from bibliography searches. FINDINGS:Review of the literature informed 2 major topic areas: the role of primary care in communication about serious illness and clinician barriers and system failures that interfere with effective communication. Literature regarding the role that primary care plays in communication focused primarily on the ambiguity about whether primary care clinicians or specialists are responsible for initiating conversations, the benefits of primary care clinicians and specialists conducting conversations, and the quantity and quality of discussions. Timely and effective communication about serious illness in primary care is hampered by key clinician barriers, which include deficits in knowledge, skills, and attitudes; discomfort with prognostication; and lack of clarity about the appropriate timing and initiation of conversations. Finally, system failures in coordination, documentation, feedback, and quality improvement contribute to lack of conversations. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE:Clinician and system barriers will challenge primary care clinicians and institutions to meet the needs of patients with serious illness. Ensuring that conversations about goals and values occur at the appropriate time for seriously ill patients will require improved training, validation, and dissemination of patient selection tools, systems for conducting and revisiting conversations, accessible documentation, and incentives for measurement, feedback, and continuous improvement.

journal_name

JAMA Intern Med

journal_title

JAMA internal medicine

authors

Lakin JR,Block SD,Billings JA,Koritsanszky LA,Cunningham R,Wichmann L,Harvey D,Lamey J,Bernacki RE

doi

10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.3212

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1380-7

issue

eissn

2168-6106

issn

2168-6114

pii

2532792

journal_volume

176

pub_type

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Improving Communication About Serious Illness in Primary Care: A Review.