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Including Goals of Care in Treatment Decisions —Meeting Them Where They Are Involves Moving.
Linebarger J · JAMA Pediatrics\'a0 · 2023
Asking about the guiding goal of care (GOC) offers health care professionals a perspective on how an individual patient or a family prioritizes health care decisions and is an essential component of shared-decision making. Listening to the patient and family response offers insight into how they are sensemaking in the setting of an illness. Incorporating GOCs into treatment decisions promotes goal-concordant care for the patient and family and fosters alignment among health care professionals. Attending to patient GOCs fosters “feeling heard and understood,” an important quality measure.1 Inclusion of GOCs is paramount to providing quality health care in nearly all circumstances, not only near end of life.
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