Meredith Vanstone, Thanh H Neville, France J Clarke, Marilyn Swinton, Marina Sadik, Alyson Takaoka, Orla Smith, Andrew J Baker, Allana LeBlanc, Denise Foster, Vinay Dhingra, Peter Phung, Xueqing Sherry Xu, Yuhan Kao, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Benjamin Tam, Feli Toledo, Anne Boyle, Deborah J Cook
Background: The 3 Wishes Project (3WP) is an end-of-life program that aims to honor the dignity of dying patients by creating meaningful patient- and family-centered memories while promoting humanistic interprofessional care. Objective: To determine whether this palliative intervention could be successfully implemented-defined as demonstrating value, transferability, affordability, and sustainability-beyond the intensive care unit in which it was created. Design: Mixed-methods formative program evaluation...
January 7, 2020: Annals of Internal Medicine