Methods This concise guidance is extracted from Advance care planning: concise evidence
based guidelines. Details of the development process are given in the full guidelines along …

Advance care planning (ACP), involving discussions between patients, families and
healthcare professionals on future healthcare decisions, in advance of anticipated …

Background. Increasing medical possibilities, ageing of the population and the growing
number of people with chronic illness appears to make advance care planning (ACP) …

Background Patients still receive non-beneficial treatments when nearing the end of life.
Advance care planning (ACP) interventions have shown to positively influence compliance …

Many patients at the end of life receive care that is inappropriate or futile and, if given the
opportunity to discuss their care preferences well ahead of death, may well have chosen to …

ACP is an established standard of care in many settings. However, no validated tool exists to
evaluate patients' and their families' perspectives on ACP. The purpose of this study was to …

Objectives To explore seriously ill, older hospitalised patients' and their family members'
perspectives on the barriers and facilitators of advance care planning (ACP). Methods We …

Objective The aim of the present study was to develop, implement and explore the effects of
a program in advance care planning (ACP) within a tertiary hospital general medicine …

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is thought to enhance patient autonomy and
improve end-of-life care. However, there is evidence that when patients engage in ACP, the …

Abstract Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables physicians to align healthcare
with patients' wishes, reduces burdensome life-prolonging medical interventions, and …