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Establishing Goals of Care for Patients With Stroke and Feeding Problems: An Interdisciplinary Trigger-Based
Franchesca Hwang1, Christine Boardingham2, Susanne Walther2
1Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Background:
Few patients with dysphagia because of stroke receive early palliative care (PC) to align treatment goals with their values, as called for by practice guidelines, particularly before enteral access procedures for artificial nutrition.
Measures:
To increase documented goals of care (GOC) discussions among acute stroke patients before feeding gastrostomy tube placement.
Intervention:
We undertook a rapid-cycle continuous quality improvement process with interdisciplinary planning, implementation, and performance review to operationalize an upstream trigger for PC referral prompted by the speech and language pathology evaluation.
Outcomes:
During a six-month period, 21 patients underwent gastrostomy tube placement; 52% had preprocedure GOC discussions postintervention, with the rate of compliance increasing steadily from 13% (11/87, preintervention) to 100% (2/2) in the final two months.
Conclusions/Lessons Learned:
We effectively increased documented GOC discussions before feeding gastrostomy tube placement among stroke patients. Systems-based tools and education will enhance this upstream trigger model to ensure early PC for stroke patients.
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