JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Discussions about goals of care are important for high-quality palliative care yet are often lacking for hospitalized older patients with serious illness. ⋯ Among hospitalized older adults with serious illness, a pragmatic clinician-facing communication-priming intervention significantly improved documentation of goals-of-care discussions in the electronic health record, with a greater effect size in racially or ethnically minoritized patients.