RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP S16
OP S20
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200233
VO 34
IS Supplement
A1 Melissa A. Bender
A1 Kuang-Ning Huang
A1 Jaqueline Raetz
YR 2021
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/Supplement/S16.abstract
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.