Characteristic | Project 1: Home Based Primary Care programs | Project 2: Community Nursing Home Programs |
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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 |