Early Changes in Rates of Documented Goals-of-Care Conversations in the Veterans Health Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic

J Gen Intern Med. 2021 May;36(5):1466-1469. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06652-5. Epub 2021 Mar 9.

Renda Soylemez Wiener^{1

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3}, So Yeon Ivy Kim⁴, Terri R Fried^{5

6}, Jennifer Cohen⁷, Mary Beth Foglia⁷, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann^{8

9}, Amy M Linsky^{4

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¹ Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. renda.wiener@va.gov.
² Medicine Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. renda.wiener@va.gov.
³ The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. renda.wiener@va.gov.
⁴ Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, VA Connecticut Health Care System, West Haven, CT, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁷ National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ VA New England Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA.
⁹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Medicine Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
¹¹ Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.

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