PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bender, Melissa A.
AU  - Huang, Kuang-Ning
AU  - Raetz, Jaqueline
TI  - Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200233
DP  - 2021 Feb 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - S16--S20
VI  - 34
IP  - Supplement
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S16.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S16.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2021 Feb 01; 34
AB  - Advance care planning (ACP) is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously identified barriers to ACP include lack of time during patient visits, billing, clinician and patient discomfort and lack of resources, and difficulties with documenting and accessing ACP documents. Here we describe new challenges and new opportunities for ACP that have arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic, both due to the complexities of the illness and expedited changes in some of the stagnancies in the health care system. The shared risk for COVID-19 that all people face brings urgency to institutional policy changes to ACP form completion. However, research should assess acceptability and effectiveness of these strategies.