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From: Content of Serious Illness Care conversation documentation is associated with goals of care orders—a quantitative evaluation in hospital

Fig. 3

Percentage of Tracking Records recording Serious Illness Conversation element scores (total score and by domain) by patient’s Goals of Care Designation. Total and domain scores of elements from the Serious Illness Conversation Program Codebook [8] for Tracking Records (n = 175). Elements were coded as 1 if present and 0 if absent. The Total score (0–17) was comprised of the total score in each domain: Goals and Values (0–7), Prognosis (0–4), End-of-Life Care Planning (0–4), and Goals of Care Designation/Life-sustaining treatments (0–2). Distributions shown, are by patient’s Goals of Care Designation (GCD) which are a) ‘Resuscitative Care’ (R); b) ‘Medical Care’ (M); and c) ‘Comfort Care’ (C)

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BMC Palliative Care

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