NIH R01 · 2025
African Americans (AA) are more likely to receive ineffective and burdensome interventions at end-of-life (EoL) and are less likely to receive palliative care or enroll in hospice. For example, goals of care conversations, which are critical discussions between clinicians, patients and families near the EoL, are less likely to occur for AAs than for Whites. EoL decisions for many AA persons are informed by their prior experiences with healthcare. Efforts to improve EoL care need to address patient-level needs and EoL care values, interpersonal- and community-level norms for EoL communication and treatment, and healthcare institutional- contexts for delivering EoL care. Our research group…
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