QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Your Care Plan™
Your CarePlan is a web-based, video guided POLST completion tool that can be used in long-term care facilities, hospitals, or private practices. Your CarePlan was created to help patients make informed choices about treatment decisions. But it was also created for you, to help script the conversation around end-of-life (EOL) decisions, improve health literacy and ensure informed consent when completing the POLST form.
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Your Care Plan™
Your CarePlan is a web-based, video guided POLST completion tool that can be used in long-term care facilities, hospitals, or private practices. Your CarePlan was created to help patients make informed choices about treatment decisions. But it was also created for you, to help script the conversation around end-of-life (EOL) decisions, improve health literacy and ensure informed consent when completing the POLST form.
How Does it Help?
Using Your CarePlan to complete a POLST form:
- Makes it easy to have these often uncomfortable conversations
- Improves patient health literacy
- Ensures informed consent
- Reduces unnecessary hospital readmissions
- Increases referrals and earlier access to palliative and hospice care
- Reduces the burdens of serious illness on patients and caregivers
- Helps HCPs deliver care aligned to a patient’s values and goals
“Your CarePlan made the POLST conversation feel natural and comfortable for both our staff and patients.”
— Joanita M., LCSW, Long-Term Care
How Does it Help?
Using Your CarePlan to complete a POLST form:
- Makes it easy to have these often uncomfortable conversations
- Improves patient health literacy
- Ensures informed consent
- Reduces unnecessary hospital readmissions
- Increases referrals and earlier access to palliative and hospice care
- Reduces the burdens of serious illness on patients and caregivers
- Helps HCPs deliver care aligned to a patient’s values and goals
“Your CarePlan made the POLST conversation feel natural and comfortable for both our staff and patients.”
— Joanita M., LCSW, Long-Term Care
valuable Resources for Providers and Patients
Your CarePlan includes:
- Two training modules covering topics such as identifying appropriate patients, best practices for conducting care plan meetings, documentation and billing
- Support calls to coach staff and help with implementation
- A training manual
- A series of videos that help the patient/medical decision-maker prepare for the care planning discussion
Your CarePlan in Clinical Practice Real world evidence (RWE) obtained from 326 provider and patient POLST conversations using Your CarePlan resulted in:
36% of patients electing DO NOT HOSPITALIZE (DNH)1
- 36%
98% of patients electing DO NOT RESUSCITATE (DNR)1 DO NOT INTUBATE (DNI)1
- 98%
A recent study2 found that when HCPs used Your CarePlan, they achieved high rates of:
COMPLETION*
- 99%
- 48%
* p<0.001
LESS AGGRESSIVE CARE*
Patients Electing Limited or Symptom Treatment
- 96%
- 80%
* p<0.001
NUTRITIONAL PREFERENCES*
Patients Electing No Artificial Nutrition
- 77%
- 54%
* p<0.0001
Patients Using Your CarePlan (n=112)
Control Group (n=214)
1. Data on File. GOCCNJ; RWE Sept. 17, 2018 – March 11, 2020.
2. Data on File. GOCCNJ; Pilot Study, Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2017.
Your CarePlan in Clinical Practice Real world evidence (RWE) obtained from 326 provider and patient POLST conversations using Your CarePlan resulted in:
36% of patients electing DO NOT HOSPITALIZE (DNH)1
- 36%
98% of patients electing DO NOT RESUSCITATE (DNR)1 DO NOT INTUBATE (DNI)1
- 98%
A recent study2 found that when HCPs used Your CarePlan, they achieved high rates of:
COMPLETION*
- 99%
- 48%
* p<0.001
LESS AGGRESSIVE CARE*
Patients Electing Limited or Symptom Treatment
- 96%
- 80%
* p<0.001
NUTRITIONAL PREFERENCES*
Patients Electing No Artificial Nutrition
- 77%
- 54%
* p<0.0001
Patients Using Your CarePlan (n=112)
Control Group (n=214)
1. Data on File. GOCCNJ; RWE Sept. 17, 2018 – March 11, 2020.
2. Data on File. GOCCNJ; Pilot Study, Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2017.
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“We found the quality of our conversations with patients improved after we started using Your CarePlan. And, we’ve completed so many more POLSTS!”
— Laurie P., LCSW, Community-Based Practice
License Your CarePlan
Contact Us
“We found the quality of our conversations with patients improved after we started using Your CarePlan. And, we’ve completed so many more POLSTS!”
— Laurie P., LCSW, Community-Based Practice