Methods: This systematic literature review examined interventional studies of education
programs conducted with health professionals and care staff across a broad range of …

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) discussions often occur in the inpatient setting
when patients are too ill to participate in decision making. Although the outpatient setting is …

Background: The right to self-determination is fundamental in clinical ethics. End-of-life
conversations and advance directives (ADs), in addition to preserving this right, have been …

Introduction: Two-thirds of chronically ill patients do not have an advance directive. The
primary aim of this study was to develop an intervention to increase the documentation of …

Objective: Advance planning for health care and research participation has been promoted
as a mechanism to retain some control over one's life, and ease substitute decision making …

Background/Objectives: The serious illness conversation (SIC) is an evidence-based
framework for conversations with patients about a serious illness diagnosis. The objective of …

This paper describes the development of a tool for palliative care nurses to initiate and
facilitate advance care planning (ACP) conversations in community palliative care practice …

Background Despite many benefits of end-of-life (EOL) planning, only 1 in 3 adults has EOL
documentation, with low rates in resident primary care clinics as well. Objective To increase …

Background and Objectives: We examined the impact of advance care planning (ACP) self-
efficacy and beliefs in explaining skilled nursing facility (SNF) provider judgments about …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) is an important step to provide medical care
consistent with patients' preferences and values. Nationally, rates of ACP completion are …