TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Qualitative Research A1 - Giacomini, Mita A1 - Cook, Deborah J. A2 - Guyatt, Gordon A2 - Rennie, Drummond A2 - Meade, Maureen O. A2 - Cook, Deborah J. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed AB - CLINICAL SCENARIOWalking out of the hospital on Friday night, you reflect on your week of rounds with all of the patients for whom you provide care. You are a hospitalist and most of your patients are elderly, have multiple comorbidities, and live independently in a retirement home, apartment, or house. Although you strive to move them along the trajectory of their illness toward recovery, minimizing complications, and maintaining their prehospital function, some patients do not return home. This week, you admitted 3 patients whose hospitalization you predict is a terminal event. In conversations, a family member of one of these patients acknowledged that possibility. You pledge in the coming week to engage in advance care planning more directly, beginning by exploring your patients' awareness that they may not survive this hospital stay. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1183876770 ER -