NIH R01 · 2025
Improving Understanding of Quality End of Life Care Using a Dyadic Approach
Project Summary/Abstract There is strong national consensus about the need to deliver high-quality care at the end of life (EOL) for patients with advanced (distant metastasis) cancer. Yet, despite the efforts of healthcare providers, many patients receive care that they do not want at EOL and leave their informal caregivers struggling with complicated grief months after their death. Research, to date, has tended to define quality EOL care using unidimensional factors that do not encompass key aspects of EOL care, such as patient and family-centered EOL care that holds individual preferences for EOL care at its core. Specifically, quality EOL care has been defined in terms of either: (a)…
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