What is most important for you to achieve?: an analysis of patient responses when receiving palliative care consultation

Journal of Palliative Medicine
Timothy E QuillMarsha Buckley

Abstract

Hospitalized patients with a wide range of serious, but not necessarily terminal illnesses are now receiving palliative care consultations. The purpose of this report is to describe what palliative care patients say is "most important to achieve" at the time of initial consultation. We conducted a retrospective descriptive content analysis of patient responses to the question "What is most important for you to achieve?" recorded at the time of initial inpatient palliative care consultation. Two hundred fifteen patient records had documented first-person patient responses recorded. These responses were independently reviewed and categorized in a four-phase iterative process. Responses were divided into four major categories: (1) Improving quality and meaning ("I want to be able to sit on my front porch and watch the farm go by.") (52%); (2) Achieving relief or comfort ("Can you get rid of my pain?") (34%); (3) Altering the trajectory of illness ("If there is a treatment that can make me well, I want it.") (22%); and (4) Preparing for dying ("I am not afraid of dying. I just don't want to suffer.") (11%). Five percent of responses were unable to be reliably categorized ("You ask hard questions."). Some respondents gave more than ...Continue Reading

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