Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention
Bernacki R, Hutchings M, Vick J, Smith G, Paladino J, Lipsitz S, Gawande A, Block S. Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention. BMJ Open 2015, 5: e009032. PMID: 26443662, PMCID: PMC4606432, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSerious Illness Care ProgramRandomised controlled trialsCommunication interventionsCare programReceipt of goal-concordant careAdvance care planning discussionsCluster randomised controlled trialCare planning discussionsGoal-concordant careControlled trialsHigh-quality careEnd of lifePatients receive careMedical recordsElectronic medical recordsQuality of lifePeer-reviewed publicationsSelf-reported dataPatients' medical recordsUsual careClinician satisfactionPatient receiptQuality of communicationPlanning discussionsInstitute Institutional Review Board