Prevalence of advance care planning practices among people with chronic diseases in hospital and community settings: a retrospective medical record audit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables healthcare professionals to embrace the important process where patients think about their values in life and goals for health care, and discuss their future health care preferences with family members for a time when they are not able to make health care decisions. Despite the promotion of ACP last two decades, and well-known benefits of ACP and a written Advance Care Directive (ACD), they are still underutilised in Australia and across the world. Previous studies have provided some insights, however, an uptake of ACP and prevalence of ACDs in community settings is rarely reported.

Methods

The aim of this study was to determine the uptake of ACP and prevalence of ACDs among people with chronic diseases in hospital and community

SUBMITTER: Jeong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022421 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature