Focus advance care planning on outcomes
The Annals of Internal Medicine recently had a timely discussion of advance care planning, trying to focus the discussion away from helping patients specify what they'd want, and more towards laying the groundwork for appropriate decision making by loved ones…
The Annals of Internal Medicine recently had a timely discussion of advance care planning, trying to focus the discussion away from helping patients specify what they’d want, and more towards laying the groundwork for appropriate decision making by loved ones whenever that time comes. Good one for the teaching file.
That is, instead of thinking of ACP as patients pre-specifying “if X happens, then …
Focus advance care planning on outcomes