Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

Telemedicine offers a viable option for advance care planning, overcoming physical and logistical barriers for vulnerable cancer patients. No significant difference in advance care planning or ...

Electronic health records can help identify triggers for advance care planning that align with optimal timing windows, mainly linked to death, and can improve the initiation of advance care planning.

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care ...

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Adults with serious illness in the US were significantly more likely than those without to think about their advance care plans, a new study has found. Those concerned about whether their surrogates ...

Data has shown that roughly one-quarter of traditional Medicare spending for healthcare is for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life—a proportion that has remained ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Chances are each of us knows someone facing the challenge of a chronic and serious medical condition. Planning in advance for when you may not be able to speak for yourself ...

Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rates of end-of-life conversations and completion of advance directives increased after the intervention. The ...

An end-of-life conversation may increase hope in patients with cancer, however many patients may be getting it from oncologists when it’s a “too little too late,” an expert said. For a patient with ...