Enabling Advance Directive Completion: Feasibility of a New Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention.

ABSTRACT: Adults who complete an advance directive (AD) are not consistently offered information about the risks, benefits, or alternatives (RBA) of the life-sustaining medical procedures addressed on standardized forms. The current article describes a new patient-centered nurse-supported advance care planning (NSACP) intervention focused on providing information about RBA of life-sustaining procedures. Fifty participants (mean age = 50.26 years) at a Veterans Affairs medical center were randomized to the NSACP intervention or a comparison condition. Before randomization, 78% (n = 39) expressed interest in RBA information. Of participants in the NSACP group, 94% (n = 30) completed an AD. Participants who received NSACP made more decisions to decline life-sustaining treatment than those who were rand

SUBMITTER: Hilgeman MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10364459 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature