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Record W4312801415 · doi:10.22374/cjgim.v17i1.528

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement the Serious Illness Care Program on Hospital Medical Wards

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John J. You, Japteg Singh, Jessica Simon, Irene Ma, Joanna Paladino, Marilyn Swinton, Daniel Kobewka, Peter Munene, Dev Jayaraman, Fiona Dunne, Andrew Lagrotteria, Rachelle Bernacki

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoOttawa HospitalUniversity of OttawaMcGill UniversityUniversity of CalgaryMcMaster UniversityTrillium Health Centre
FundersUniversity of CalgaryCanadian Frailty NetworkHamilton Health Sciences
KeywordsMedicineConversationIntervention (counseling)Family medicineLimitingFamily memberNursing

Abstract

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Background: The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) is a communication intervention that builds clinician capacity to have earlier, more values-based conversations about goals of care with patients experiencing life-limiting illness. We report the impact of its implementation on hospital wards.Methods: In this quality improvement initiative on the medical wards of two Canadian teaching hospitals, we trained physicians, nurse practitioners, and social workers in the use of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide. Between February 2017 and December 2019, we prompted trained clinicians to have serious illness conversations with hospitalized patients or their family member(s), for patients at high risk of dying. Outcomes were the number of clinicians trained, the number of conversations delivered, patient or family experience, including the extent to which they felt heard and understood, and clinician experience.Results: We trained 57 (92%) of 62 eligible clinicians. We delivered conversations to 334 (29%) of 1158 eligible patients (or family members) and documented 274 (82%) of these in the medical record. After a serious illness conversation, 80% of patients or families rated the conversations as mostly or extremely worthwhile and felt more heard and understood (+0.2 on 5-point scale, P = 0.04). The majority (95%) of clinicians agreed (some-what, mostly, or completely) that conversations could be done in an appropriate amount of time and 97% agreed (somewhat, mostly, or completely) that the Guide provided information that enhances clinical care. Interpretation: The SICP can be implemented on medical wards of hospitals and can have a positive impact on patient and clinician experience. RésuméContexte : Le Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) est une intervention de communication qui renforce la capacité du clinicien à avoir des conversations plus précoces et davantage axées sur les valeurs concernant les objectifs des soins avec les patients atteints d’une maladie limitant leur espérance de vie. Nous présentons les répercussions de sa mise en œuvre dans les services hospitaliers.Méthodologie : Dans cette initiative sur l’amélioration de la qualité dans les services médicaux de deux hôpitaux universitaires canadiens, nous avons formé des médecins, des infirmières praticiennes et des travailleurs sociaux à l’utilisation du guide de conversation sur les maladies graves. Entre février 2017 et decembre 2019, nous avons incité les cliniciens formés à avoir des conversations sur les maladies graves avec des patients hospitalisés présentant un risque élevé de décès ou des membres de leur famille. Les critères d’évaluation étaient le nombre de cliniciens formés, le nombre de conversations effectuées, l’expérience des patients ou de leur famille, y compris la mesure dans laquelle ils se sont sentis écoutés et compris, et l’expérience des cliniciens.Résultats : Nous avons formé 57 (92 %) des 62 cliniciens admissibles. Des conversations ont été réalisées auprès de 334 (29 %) des 1158 patients (ou membres de la famille) admissibles et 274 (82 %) de ces conversations ont été consignées dans le dossier médical. Après une conversation sur les maladies graves, 80 % des patients ou de leur famille ont évalué les conversations comme étant plutôt ou extrêmement utiles et ils se sont sentis plus écoutés et compris (+ 0,2 sur une échelle de 5 points, P = 0,04). La majorité (95 %) des cliniciens sont d’accord (quelque peu, plutôt ou complètement) sur le fait que les conversations ont pu avoir lieu dans un laps de temps approprié et 97 % sont d’accord (quelque peu, plutôt ou complètement) sur le fait que le guide fournit des renseignements qui améliorent les soins cliniques.Interprétation : Le SICP peut être mis en œuvre dans les services médicaux des hôpitaux et peut avoir des répercussions positives sur l’expérience des patients et des cliniciens.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.024
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.043
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.438
Threshold uncertainty score0.871

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0240.043
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.440
Teacher spread0.361 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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