Trauma Patient-Centered Discharge Plan Form: A Pilot Study.

Background: Comprehensive and multidisciplinary discharge planning can improve trauma patient throughput, decrease length of hospitalization, increase family and patient support, and expedite hospital discharge.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a patient-centered discharge plan form for adult trauma patients.

Methods: A single-center pilot study was conducted with adult trauma patients on a neurosurgical medical-surgical floor at a Level II trauma center in the Western United States from January to February 2023.

Palliative Integration Into Ambulatory Oncology: An Advance Care Planning Quality Improvement Project.

Advance care planning (ACP) is essential to ensuring that patient-centered end-of-life goals are respected if a health crisis occurs. Advanced practitioner barriers to ACP include insufficient time and limited confidence in discussions. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase advanced cancer patients' electronic health record (EHR) documented surrogate decision maker and ACP documentation by 25% over 8 weeks.