• J Pain Symptom Manage · Apr 2022

    Differing conceptualizations of the goals of care discussion: A critical discourse analysis.

    • Jeff Myers, Ginah L Kim, Jessica Bytautas, and Fiona Webster.
    • Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: jeff.myers@sinaihealth.ca.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Apr 1; 63 (4): 495-502.

    ContextThe goals of care discussion (GOCD) has been positioned as an improvement strategy to address discordance between care decisions made by seriously ill patients and care received. Interventions aimed at improving GOCDs however have had limited success. This may in part be due to the considerable variation in views on the essential components and expected outcomes of a GOCD. This variability, and consequently clinical approaches to GOCDs, may reflect fundamental differences in how the GOCD is conceptualized.ObjectiveTo identify and characterize differing conceptualizations of the GOCD.MethodsCritical discourse analysis was used to qualitatively examine GOCDs documented for inpatients of 35 Canadian palliative medicine (PM), critical care medicine (CCM) and general internal medicine (GIM) physicians. Patterns in the ways the GOCD had been constructed were characterized by identifying different aspects of the approaches used by clinicians.ResultsGOCD notes varied in the predominant style and tone (from narrative to biomedical), predominant information source (patient/family to physician), and contribution of the patient's perspective. Notably binary differences were also found in the locus of goals and located either with the patient or with the broad concept of treatments. Although not exclusively, locus of goals tended to be with the patient among PM physicians and with treatments among CCM and GIM physicians.ConclusionThese findings offer clinical evidence for differing conceptualizations of the GOCD and orientations to goals as either person-centered or treatment-centered. This phenomenon may be in part discipline-based and has important implications for both clinical practice and training experiences.Copyright © 2021 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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