Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

Electronic health records can help identify triggers for advance care planning that align with optimal timing windows, mainly linked to death, and can improve the initiation of advance care planning.

Cancer patients who engage in advance care planning are more likely to receive less aggressive, more comfort-based end-of-life care when compared to their peers who do not have an advanced care plan ...

Telemedicine offers a viable option for advance care planning, overcoming physical and logistical barriers for vulnerable cancer patients. No significant difference in advance care planning or ...

Empowering social workers to discuss advance care planning with older patients with cancer could improve documentation of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rates of end-of-life conversations and completion of advance directives increased after the intervention. The ...

During a medical emergency or a serious illness or at the end of life, questions may arise about a patient’s medical treatment and how their care team should proceed. In instances where the patient is ...

Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care ...

A strategy for advance care planning (ACP) that included automated outreach from staff who contacted patients to offer ...

For senior living communities, this time of togetherness presents an important opportunity to encourage meaningful, values-based conversations about end-of-life care.

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