Advance care directive prevalence among older Australians and associations with person-level predictors and quality indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning (ACP) conversations may result in preferences for medical care being documented.

Objective

To explore the uptake and quality of advance care directives (ACDs) among older Australians accessing health and aged care services, by overall ACP documentation prevalence, person-level predictors and ACD quality indicators.

Design and setting

National multi-centre health record audit in general practices (GP), hospitals and residential aged care facilities (RACF).

Participants

A total of 4187 people aged ≥65 years attending their GP (n = 676), admitted to hospital (n = 1122) or residing in a RACF (n = 2389).

Main outcome measures

ACP documentation prevalence by setting and type including person-completed ACDs and non-ACD documents

SUBMITTER: Buck K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8369087 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature