Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2017
Effects of End-of-Life Discussions on the Mental Health of Bereaved Family Members and Quality of Patient Death and Care.
End-of-life discussions are crucial for providing appropriate care to patients with advanced cancer at the end of their lives. ⋯ End-of-life discussions may contribute to reducing depression and complicated grief in bereaved family members and enable patients to experience quality end-of-life care and a good death.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2017
Pragmatic Clinical TrialFinancial Incentives to Increase Advance Care Planning Among Medicaid Beneficiaries: Lessons Learned from Two Pragmatic Randomized Trials.
Medicaid populations have low rates of advance care planning (ACP). Potential policy interventions include financial incentives. ⋯ ACP rates were low despite an existing provider financial incentive. Adding a provider-delivered patient financial incentive, but not a mail-delivered patient incentive, modestly increased ACP discussions. PCP encouragement combined with a patient incentive may be more powerful than either encouragement or incentive alone.