Context Patients with end-stage kidney disease have a high mortality rate and disease
burden. Despite this, many do not speak with health care professionals about end-of-life …

Objectives Advance care planning is the process by which people reflect upon their wishes
and values for healthcare, discuss their choices with family and friends and document their …

Background Recent clinical practice guidelines have highlighted the importance of advance
care planning (ACP) for improving end-of-life care for people with chronic kidney disease …

Comprehensive care of patients with ESRD requires expertise in advance care planning
(ACP), including attention to ethical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues related to starting …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) empowers patients to consider and communicate
their current and future treatment goals. However, it can be an emotionally charged process …

Comprehensive care of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requires expertise in
advance care planning (ACP), including attention to ethical, psychosocial, and spiritual …

Background Few trials have examined long-term outcomes of advance care planning (ACP)
interventions. We examined the efficacy of an ACP intervention on preparation for end-of-life …

Background Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) on hemodialysis have limited
life expectancy, yet their palliative care needs often go unmet. The aim of this study was to …

For well over a decade, we have known that dialysis patients and their families and friends
desire opportunities to engage in advance care planning with their nephrologist and dialysis …

Advance care planning is a process that engages healthcare providers and patients to
articulate wishes of patients as their illness progresses. Persons with chronic kidney disease …