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Enhancing Elderly Advance Care Planning Experience At A Primary Care Clinic, Oi Shan Wong
Enhancing Elderly Advance Care Planning Experience At A Primary Care Clinic, Oi Shan Wong
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The purpose of the project was to examine if the identification of readiness for an advance care planning (ACP) discussion of elderly participants would enhance the outcomes of participants' satisfaction, improve the likelihood of having an ACP discussion and increase the completion rates of an advance directive (AD) document after an office visit.
Forty-four elderly participants, who met the selection criteria, were recruited from a primary clinic in Northern California from October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Female, n =28). All participants were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (n= 22) or a control group ( …