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Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention.

BMJ Open

October 2015

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Introduction: Ensuring that patients receive care that is consistent with their goals and values is a critical component of high-quality care. This article describes the protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent, structured communication intervention.

Methods And Analysis: Patients with advanced, incurable cancer and life expectancy of <12 months will participate together with their surrogate.

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