Abstract:
Discussions about end-of-life care are challenging conversations that health care professionals and their patients must navigate together. Through earlier concordance of goals, interventions to improve quality of life and symptom management can be initiated. A quality improvement initiative, using an interdisciplinary team approach, identified the effectiveness of a palliative care program with the aim of in identification of barriers which impacted goals of care conversations and referral generation. Success in referral generation was realized using a Palliative Care screening tool and workflow process.
