January 2021 Release Notes

The new year's off to a strong start! Here's what we've been up to this past January.

New in the Content Library

We've added 4 videos and 23 documents in languages that include English 🇺🇸, German 🇩🇪, and Greek 🇬🇷.

COVID-19

  • COVID-19: mRNA Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) (Condensed) 🇺🇸
  • COVID-19: mRNA Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) (Condensed) (Handout) 🇺🇸
  • COVID-19: mRNA Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) (Extended) 🇺🇸
  • COVID-19: mRNA Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) (Extended) (Handout) 🇺🇸

CPR

  • CPR: Advanced Cancer (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷
  • CPR: Advanced Disease (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷
  • CPR: Advanced Heart Failure (Handout) 🇬🇷
  • CPR: Advanced Liver Disease (Handout) 🇬🇷
  • CPR: General Overview for Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷

Goals of Care

  • Goals of Care: Advanced Cancer (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷
  • Goals of Care: Advanced Disease (Handout) 🇬🇷
  • Goals of Care: Advanced Heart Disease (Handout) 🇺🇸
  • Goals of Care: Advanced Heart Failure (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷
  • Goals of Care: Advanced Liver Failure (Handout) 🇬🇷
  • Goals of Care: Advanced Lung Disease (Handout) 🇩🇪
  • Goals of Care: General Overview (Handout) 🇩🇪🇬🇷
  • Goals of Care: Skilled Nursing Facilities (Handout) 🇩🇪

Hospice

  • Hospice: Advanced Cancer (Handout) 🇬🇷
  • Hospice: An Introduction (Handout) 🇬🇷

Pediatrics

  • A Guide to the Goals of Care for Parents of Children with Serious Illness 🇺🇸
  • Advance Care Planning & the Goals of Care of Parents with Children with a Serious Illness 🇺🇸

Technology Platform Updates

Check out a summary below on recent updates for our web app.

Web app

  • Continued accessibility improvements on the clinician and admin pages
  • Content Feature updates (for Admins):
    • The number of items that can be featured for users increased from 4 to 5
    • To make it easier for you to feature or customize content for your users, we've added a search bar that allows you to quickly pull up the content of your choice

Image 2: Search bar highlighted on the Feature Content page. You must be an Admin to access this page

Image 3: Search bar highlighted on the Assign Content page. You must be an Admin to access this page

New on the Blog

In case you missed it, here's the latest feature on our blog.

Goals-of-Care Conversations: Making the Most of Your Discussions

(4 min read)

Goals-of-care conversations are the best way to discover a patient’s health care wishes and ensure goal-consistent care. When executed well, these discussions elevate the clinician-patient relationship, opening the door to trust, open communication, and shared decision making.

Goals-of-Care Conversations: A Best-Practice, Step-By-Step Approach

(6 min read)

Engaging patients in meaningful goals-of-care discussions is critical to providing patient-centered, individualized care. High quality care can only be achieved when a patient’s care is aligned with their goals, preferences, and values.

That's all for now! Take care and stay tuned for next month's updates.

- The ACP Decisions Team