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Wishes to Improve Support and Humanity at End-of-life in Safety-net Hospitals

Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

Summary

Dignified and compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care is a cornerstone of high-quality, patient-centered care, but in safety-net hospitals EOL care is often overlooked, considered too late, or not at all. By eliciting and implementing final wishes for dying patients, the 3 Wishes Project (3WP) has demonstrated, in tertiary academic centers, that acts of compassion can improve the EOL experience and help families cope with loss. The investigators propose to implement the 3WP in safety-net hospitals where there are less resources and more diverse, disadvantaged patient populations, and hypothesize that there will be similar positive effects on the EOL experience for patients, families, and clinicians.

Official title: Personalized End of Life Care in Safety-Net Hospitals: Implementation of the 3 Wishes Project

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