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Advance Care Planning Documentation Strategies; Goals-Of-Care As An Alternative To Not-For-Resuscitation In Medical And Oncology Patients. A Pre-Post Controlled Study On Quantifiable Outcomes, David J.R Morgan, Derek Eng, Dominic Higgs, Maria Beilin, Caroline Bulsara, Milly Wong, Louise Angus, Nicholas Waldron
Advance Care Planning Documentation Strategies; Goals-Of-Care As An Alternative To Not-For-Resuscitation In Medical And Oncology Patients. A Pre-Post Controlled Study On Quantifiable Outcomes, David J.R Morgan, Derek Eng, Dominic Higgs, Maria Beilin, Caroline Bulsara, Milly Wong, Louise Angus, Nicholas Waldron
Nursing Papers and Journal Articles
Background: Health services in Tasmania, Victoria and now Western Australia are changing to goals-of-care (GOC) advance care planning (ACP) documentation strategies.
Aim: To compare the clinical impact of two different health department-sanctioned ACP documentation strategies.
Methods: A non-blinded, pre–post, controlled study over two corresponding 6-month periods in 2016 and 2017 comparing the current discretional not-for-resuscitation (NFR) with a new, inclusive GOC strategy in two medical/oncology wards at a large private hospital. Main outcomes were the uptake of ACP forms per hospitalisation and the timing between hospital admission, ACP form completion and in-patient death. Secondary outcomes included utilisation of the rapid …
Advance Care Planning In 21st Century Australia: A Systematic Review And Appraisal Of Online Advance Care Directive Templates Against National Framework Criteria, T Luckett, P Bhattarai, J Phillips, M Agar, D Currow, Y Krastev, P Davidson
Advance Care Planning In 21st Century Australia: A Systematic Review And Appraisal Of Online Advance Care Directive Templates Against National Framework Criteria, T Luckett, P Bhattarai, J Phillips, M Agar, D Currow, Y Krastev, P Davidson
Nursing Papers and Journal Articles
Objectives A drive to promote advance care planning at a population level has led to a proliferation of online advance care directive (ACD) templates but little information to guide consumer choice. The current study aimed to appraise the quality of online ACD templates promoted for use in Australia.
Methods A systematic review of online Australian ACD templates was conducted in February 2014. ACD templates were identified via Google searches, and quality was independently appraised by two reviewers against criteria from the 2011 report A National Framework for Advance Care Directives. Bias either towards or against future medical treatment was …