A Codified Process for Multidisciplinary Team Consensus Around the Termination of Life Sustaining Treatments (LST) in France: An Interview Study (S822)

Abstract

seeking emergent care; 3) ensuring family members have a common understanding of the patient's plan of care; 4) initiating and facilitating conversations with patients about coping, values, beliefs, and ''what if'' scenarios about current and potential future health states and treatments; 5) implementing choices (e.g., providing transportation) and addressing ''spillover'' decisions (e.g., work arrangements) resulting from medical treatment choices; and 6) making upstream healthcare decisions on behalf of patients who preferred to have decisions made by their family caregivers. Conclusion. These data highlight a previously unreported and understudied set of critical decision partnering roles that cancer family caregivers play in patient healthcare decision-making. Implications for Research, Policy, or Practice. Optimizing these roles may represent novel targets for early palliative care decision support interventions for family caregivers. Original Research Background. Pediatric patients with solid tumors have many opportunities for increased primary or specialty palliative care (PC).