INTRODUCTION Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is a physiological ultrasound test with established
safety and efficacy. Although imaging devices may be used to depict intracranial flow …

Objective We compared perceptions of the quality of dying and death in the ICU across nurses,
resident physicians, attending physicians, and family members. The aim was to obtain a …

Rural veterans are older and have more complex medical issues than their urban counterparts.
Veterans aged 65 and above represent 57% of all rural veterans who are enrolled in the …

Background: Interprofessional health care team members consider advance care planning (ACP)
to be important, yet gaps remain in systematic clinical routines to support ACP. A …

PURPOSE Primary care needs new models to facilitate advance care planning conversations.
These conversations focus on preferences regarding serious illness and may involve …

BACKGROUND To the authors’ knowledge, little is known regarding the relationship between
patients’ and families’ satisfaction with aggressive end‐of‐life care. Herein, the authors …

BACKGROUND Unlike Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care
system does not require veterans with cancer to make the “terrible choice” between receipt of …

BACKGROUND Group visits can support health behavior change and self‐efficacy. In primary
care, an advance care planning (ACP) group visit may leverage group dynamics and peer …

Introduction: Group visits for advance care planning (ACP) may help patients document
preferences for decision makers and future care. We assessed the impact of a primary care-…

Remote sensing of radiative indices must balance spatially and temporally coarse satellite
measurements with finer-scale, but geographically limited, in-situ surface measurements. …