Background: Patient identification is an important step for advance care planning (ACP)
discussions. Objectives: We conducted a scoping review to identify prognostic indices …

Background: CARING is a screening tool developed to identify patients who have a high
likelihood of death in 1 year. Aim: This study sought to validate a modified CARING tool …

Background As part of a broader study to improve the capacity for advance care planning
(ACP) in primary healthcare settings, the research team set out to develop and validate a …

Purpose: Advance care planning (ACP) is theorized to benefit both the patient and their
family when end of life is near as well as earlier in the course of serious illness. However …

Advance care planning (ACP) facilitates end-of-life care, yet many die without it. Timely and
accurate mortality prediction may encourage ACP. However, performance of predictors …

Prognostication is difficult, even with well-defined disease trajectories, such as in many
cancers and motor neurone disease (MND). It is even harder in progressive disease with a …

Objectives To determine whether advance care planning influences quality of end‐of‐life
care. Design In this observational cohort study, Medicare data and survey data from the H …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that enables individuals to describe,
in advance, the kind of health care they would want in the future. There is evidence that ACP …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Advance care planning (ACP) has shown benefit in some, but
not all, studies. It is important to understand the utility of ACP. We conducted a scoping …

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is important to improving end-of-life care. Few
studies have examined the impact of primary care physician (PCP) involvement in ACP …