Headline
The patient priorities care approach, which aligns care with patient goals, leads to reductions in treatment burden and unwanted care.
Context
Older adults with multiple chronic conditions often experience excessive health care burden. Patient priorities care is a patient-centered approach to decision-making where the patients identify their health priorities, goals, and preferences, and clinicians align their decision-making to these priorities. This article reviews outcomes associated with this model.
Findings
Use of patient priorities care led to a higher frequency of clinicians documenting the patient’s health priorities, goals, or preferences and making health priorities-based decisions. Patients who received this type of care experienced reduced treatment burden and unwanted care.
Takeaways
The patient priorities care approach to align decision-making with patient priorities may lead to better outcomes for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.