Background: Advance care planning (ACP) conversations are an important intervention to
provide care consistent with patient goals near the end of life. The emergency department …

The objective of this study was to identify the variables that influence physicians to
implement Advance Directives and assess their impact on end-of-life care. It is a narrative …

Objectives It is important that the outcomes of advance care planning (ACP) conversations
are documented and available at the point of care. Advance care directives (ACDs) are a …

An advance directive (AD) allows a patient to communicate health care preferences in the
event that he or she is no longer able to make these decisions (1). Many view advance care …

Objective The value of advance care planning (ACP) for patients with life-limiting illnesses is
widely recognized but Asian health care professionals'(HCPs') perspectives on ACP have …

Abstract Context Given recent Medicare rules reimbursing clinicians for engaging in
advance care planning, there is heightened need to understand factors associated with the …

Advance directives (ADs) are documents that allow competent individuals to set forth their
medical treatment wishes and/or to name a proxy in the event that they lose the capacity to …

Background The completion rate of Advance Directives (ADs) has been low. This study aims
to examine the effectiveness of two interventions 1) active counseling sessions coupled with …

Background. Increasing medical possibilities, ageing of the population and the growing
number of people with chronic illness appears to make advance care planning (ACP) …

Physicians are often unable to guide patients through the advance care planning (ACP)
process due to cost and time constraints. We conducted a retrospective analysis in the …