NASEM: Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop
On April 4, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop, Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness.
The workshop featured invited presentations and panel discussions on:
Barriers that impede access to care for serious illness (e.g., advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice) among vulnerable populations and strategies to address those barriers
Strategies to build trust and effectively engage patients, families, and caregivers in diverse cultural, ethnic, racial and socioeconomic environments, in order to communicate with patients and families in a culturally competent manner regarding expectations and values related to end-of-life care, and to ensure that treatment is aligned with preferences
Approaches to enhancing the diversity of the workforce providing care to people with serious illness
Models of care delivery that currently serve vulnerable populations with serious illness, including public-private partnerships and community-level interventions such as use of community health coaches for peer-to-peer interventions, and partnering with faith-based organizations
Research gaps and key questions for further research
The workshop presentations can be viewed here