RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Prognostic Indices for Advance Care Planning in Primary Care: A Scoping Review
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 322
OP 338
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2020.02.190173
VO 33
IS 2
A1 Kim, Peter
A1 Daly, Jeanette M.
A1 Berry-Stoelzle, Maresi A.
A1 Schmidt, Megan E.
A1 Michaels, LeAnn C.
A1 Dorr, David A.
A1 Levy, Barcey T.
YR 2020
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/33/2/322.abstract
AB Background: Patient identification is an important step for advance care planning (ACP) discussions.Objectives: We conducted a scoping review to identify prognostic indices potentially useful for initiating ACP.Methods: We included studies that developed and/or validated a multivariable prognostic index for all-cause mortality between 6 months and 5 years in community-dwelling adults. PubMed was searched in October 2018 for articles meeting our search criteria. If a systematic review was identified from the search, we checked for additional eligible articles in its references. We abstracted data on population studied, discrimination, calibration, where to find the index, and variables included. Each index was further assessed for clinical usability.Results: We identified 18 articles with a total of 17 unique prognostic indices after screening 9154 titles. The majority of indices (88%) had c-statistics greater than or equal to 0.70. Only 1 index was externally validated. Ten indices, 8 developed in the United States and 2 in the United Kingdom, were considered clinically usable.Conclusion: Of the 17 unique prognostic indices, 10 may be useful for implementation in the primary care setting to identify patients who may benefit from ACP discussions. An index classified as “clinically usable” may not be easy to use because of a large number of variables that are not routinely collected and the need to program the index into the electronic medical record.