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The National Cener For Ethics In Health provides practitioners with a training guide on goals of care conversations including CPR outcome facts and discussions. This training guide can be useful in discussing the realities of survival rates and prognoses with families of patients who have experienced CPR. It can serve as a tool for practitioners in discussing options with families who may not know about common CPR outcomes. 

About The Organization: The National Center for Ethics in Health serves as VA's authoritative resource for addressing the complex ethical issues that arise in patient care, health care management, and research. It provides information, education, and consultation and oversee nationwide programs and quality improvement projects to help health care practitioners and administrators to understand and apply health care ethics standards.

Keywords: CPR, End-of-life care, Patient-centered care, Healthcare communication, Ethics