Factors Influencing the Implementation of Digital Advance Care Planning: Qualitative Interview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life for people with life-limiting illnesses. Advance care planning conversations that establish a patient's wishes and preferences for care are part of a person-centered approach. Internationally, electronic health record systems are digital interventions used to record and share patients' advance care plans across health care services and settings. They aim to provide tools that support electronic information sharing and care coordination. Within the United Kingdom, Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS) are an example of this. Despite over a decade of policy promoting EPaCCS nationally, there has been limited implementation and consistently low levels of use by health professionals.

Objective

The

SUBMITTER: Bradshaw A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364948 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature