Fig 1.

Content of palliative care (PC) visits across the illness trajectory. PC clinicians recorded the content they addressed after each visit. Reported proportions for the final three visits are restricted to decedents. Reported proportions for the initial three visits exclude visits that were also among the final three visits. Reported proportions for middle visits represent averages across all available middle visits. Relative to the initial three visits, the final three visits increasingly addressed treatment decisions (P < .001), advance care planning (P < .001), and disposition (P < .001), but decreasingly addressed rapport (P < .001) and illness understanding (P < .001).