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Goal-Concordant Care — Searching for the Holy Grail

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  • Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.

The importance of delivering goal-concordant care to seriously ill patients is widely recognized. Yet there are no methods that can reliably and accurately be used to measure whether care that was provided to patients was concordant with their goals.

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Author Affiliations

From the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, the Fostering Improvement in End-of-Life Decision Science (FIELDS) program, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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