Goals of Care Conversations Part 4 Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Part 4 - Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatments FACILITATOR NOTES: This session is the last in a series designed to teach the skills required to conduct a goals of care conversation with high-risk patients and their families In this session, we will talk about discussing life-sustaining treatments with patients
Implementation of VAs Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative . . . aImplementation steps: 1) Identify a Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative coordinator and alternate; 2) secure leadership support; 3) establish a Life-Sustaining Treatment Advisory Board, Select Board Chair, and cochairs; 4) install, customize, and test the life-sustaining treatment progress note template and
Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) - Veterans Affairs The Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) is a national VHA quality improvement project that promotes personalized, proactive, patient-driven care for Veterans with serious illness by eliciting, documenting, and honoring their values, goals, and life-sustaining treatment decisions
Goals of Care Conversations - content. govdelivery. com The VA’s Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) is designed to improve patient-centered care for Veterans with serious illness The training promotes proactive goals of care conversations (GoCC) with patients who are at high risk of a life-threatening clinical event, and provides new processes for documenting the discussion
Search Results - hsrd. research. va. gov Impact of COVID-19 on implementation and outcomes of VA's Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative Linsky, Amy 2026-05-30 SDR 21-133 Assessing an Initiative to Facilitate Long-Term Financial and Housing Stability in Vulnerable Veterans Nelson, Richard 2025-09-30
Life‐sustaining treatment decisions and family evaluations of end‐of . . . Background Modeled after the Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment program, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) Decisions Initiative to improve end-of-life outcomes by standardizing LST preference documentation for seriously ill Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs VHA DIRECTIVE 1177 Veterans Health . . . Handbook 1004 03(1), Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions: Eliciting, Documenting and Honoring Patients’ Values, Goals and Preferences, dated January 11, 2017, and VHA Handbook 1004 04, State - Authorized Portable Orders (SAPO), dated February 26, 2019 (14) Approving permanent waivers for permanent disabilities k
Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative: Early Implementation . . . Background: On July 1, 2018, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) Its goal is to identify, document, and honor LST decisions of seriously ill veterans Providers document veterans' goals and decisions using a standardized LST template and order set
Associations between the Veterans Health Administrations Life . . . Background: In 2017, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) to promote goals-of-care conversations (GoCC) between seriously ill patients and their practitioners, to document patient preferences in the electronic health record, and to provide care consistent with patients' goals
VA Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions - PowerPoint Presentation Treatment Decisions InitiativeSlide2 VA Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions InitiativeNational quality improvement initiative to promote personalized, proactive, patient-driven care for Veterans with serious illnessDesired outcomes:The values, goals, and life-sustaining treatment decisions of Veterans with serious illness are proactively
Forum Fall 2019: Aging Veterans - Veterans Affairs In January 2017, the National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC) updated guidance for initiating and documenting conversations and decisions made by seriously ill Veterans regarding preferences for care, specifically life-sustaining treatments 1 NCEHC designed the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative (LSTDI) to ensure that Veterans’ goals, values, and preferences for life
Implementing Goals-of-Care Conversations: Lessons From High- and Low . . . The Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Center for Ethics in Healthcare implemented the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative, including policy and practice standards, clinician communication training, a documentation template, and central implementation support to foster advance care planning via goals-of-care conversations for seriously ill veterans in 2014, spreading
VA LIFESUSTAINING TREATMENT DECISIONS INITIATIVE 2 VA . . . - SlideToDoc. com 2 VA Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative National quality improvement initiative to promote personalized, proactive, patient-driven care for Veterans with serious illness Desired outcomes: The values, goals, and life-sustaining treatment decisions of Veterans with serious illness are proactively elicited, documented, and honored