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Table 1 Summary of projects

From: Preferences Elicited and Respected for Seriously Ill Veterans through Enhanced Decision-Making (PERSIVED): a protocol for an implementation study in the Veterans Health Administration

Characteristic

Project 1: Home Based Primary Care programs

Project 2: Community Nursing Home Programs

Aim

Equip clinicians with data, tools, and processes to consistently document LST preferences among seriously ill Veterans and convert their preferences into actionable orders to promote goal-concordant care

Equip clinicians with data, tools, and processes to consistently document LST preferences among seriously ill Veterans, convert Veterans’ preferences into actionable orders that cross VA and non-VA settings to promote goal-concordant care, and communicate preferences among VA and non-VA clinicians

Total number of sites enrolled over the project

12

6

Number of sites per cohort (3 cohorts)

4

2

Criteria for site selection

1. Programs with low baseline LST template completion

(≤ 50% of patients)

2. Geographic diversity

1. Geographic diversity

2. Program diversity:

 • Program size

 • Number of contracted community nursing homes

 • Rural/urban settings