Engagement in Advance Care Planning and Surrogates' Knowledge of Patients' Treatment Goals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A key objective of advance care planning (ACP) is improving surrogates' knowledge of patients' treatment goals. Little is known about whether ACP outside of a trial accomplishes this. The objective was to examine patient and surrogate reports of ACP engagement and associations with surrogate knowledge of goals.

Design

Cohort study SETTING: Primary care in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Participants

350 community-dwelling veterans age ≥55 years and the individual they would choose to make medical decisions on their behalf, interviewed separately.

Measurements

Treatment goals were assessed by veterans' ratings of 3 health states: severe physical disability, cognitive disability, and pain, as an acceptable or unacceptable result of treatment for sev

SUBMITTER: Fried TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555783 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature