Association of advance care planning with hospital use and costs at the end of life: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate associations between the availability and timing of digitally available advance care planning (ACP) documents and hospital use and costs during the last 6 months of life.

Design

Retrospective population-based cohort study using data linkage.

Setting

11 public hospitals in Queensland, Australia.

Participants

5586 decedents with ACP documents were directly matched 1:2 to 11 172 control decedents based on age category, sex, location, year of death and principal diagnosis code for the last-known hospital admission.

Exposure

ACP discussions with documents uploaded to a widely accessible statewide digital platform. Directly matched subgroup analyses investigated differences between decedents with ACP documents available at three differ

SUBMITTER: Scott I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11552563 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature