Background: Several clinician training interventions have been developed in the past
decade to address serious illness communication. While numerous studies report on …

Background: The ability of health care clinicians to offer a palliative approach to care to their
patients with progressive, life-limiting illness has become critical as demand for these …

Background QT dispersion (QTd) has been proposed as an indirect electrocardiography
(ECG) measure of heterogeneity of ventricular repolarization. The predictive value of QTd in …

Background Earlier end‐of‐life communication is critical for people with heart failure given
the uncertainty and high‐risk of mortality in illness. Despite this, end‐of‐life communication …

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Calmy reported receiving grants from Merck Sharp &
Dohme. No other disclosures were reported. 1. Munch MW, Myatra SN, Vijayaraghavan …

Background Effective communication is integral to the delivery of goal-concordant care for
older adults and their family caregivers, and yet, it is uncommon in people with serious …

Objective The need for clinical staff to reliably identify patients with a shortened life
expectancy is an obstacle to improving palliative and end-of-life care. We developed and …

ObjectiveFew studies have examined the challenges faced by emergency medicine (EM)
physicians in conducting goals of care discussions. This study is the first to describe the …

Here we present a new open-source software package designed to facilitate the analysis of
atmospheric data, with emphasis on data mining applications applied to single-particle mass …

Background Innovative models of collaborative palliative care are urgently needed to meet
gaps in end-of-life care among people with heart failure. We sought to determine whether …