Background Advance care planning (ACP) involves important decision making about future
medical needs. The high-volume and disparate nature of ACP research makes it difficult to …

Palliative care, a rapidly growing medical specialty, uses a team approach to enhance
quality of care for persons with serious illness. This review summarizes recent trends and …

Importance Seriously ill hospitalized patients have identified communication and decision
making about goals of care as high priorities for quality improvement in end-of-life care …

Importance Advance care planning improves the receipt of medical care aligned with
patients' values; however, it remains suboptimal among diverse patient populations. To …

Importance Serious illness impairs function and threatens survival. Patients facing serious
illness value shared decision making, yet few decision aids address the needs of this …

Advance care planning (ACP) allows individuals to specify in advance how they want to be
treated should serious illness prevent them from being able to make decisions or …

Objective To identify barriers to and enablers of advance care planning (ACP) perceived by
physicians and other health professionals in primary care. Design Cross-sectional, self …

Objectives There is growing evidence of the potential effectiveness of advance care
planning. Yet important knowledge gaps remain regarding the preconditions for successful …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) supports patients in identifying and documenting
their preferences and timely discussing them with their relatives and healthcare …

Importance Although lay health workers (LHWs) improve cancer screening and treatment
adherence, evidence on whether they can enhance other aspects of care is limited …