Barriers and facilitators to implementing advance care planning in naive contexts - where to look when plowing new terrain?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning (ACP) is a way of applying modern medicine to the principle of patient autonomy and ensuring that patients receive medical care that is consistent with their values, goals and preferences. Robust evidence supports the benefits of ACP, but it remains an underutilized resource in most countries. This paper goes from the naïve point of view, and seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators to implementation in unfamiliarized contexts and in a whole system approach involving the clinical, institutional and policy level to improve the implementation of ACP.

Methods

Qualitative interviews were chosen to enable an explorative, flexible design. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 40 health care professionals and chief physicians in hospital

SUBMITTER: Westbye SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290291 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature