Family Meeting

Clinical context

The family meeting is a structured goals-of-care conference with the patient, family and care team. It records participants, the goals under discussion, what was said, the decisions reached, assigned roles and follow-up — condensed into a goals → decisions → roles → follow-up flowchart.

Use it for serious illness, advance care planning and complex discharges: a successful meeting produces consensus, clarified roles and a concrete plan, while persistent disagreement signals unresolved conflict to mediate rather than discharge around.

Meeting notes