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A Right To Choose: A Multi-Modal Approach To Improve Advance Directive Completion Rates, Ashzra D. Jones, Lucia K. Gonzales
A Right To Choose: A Multi-Modal Approach To Improve Advance Directive Completion Rates, Ashzra D. Jones, Lucia K. Gonzales
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ABSTRACT
Purpose: Advance Directives (AD) ensure that patients receive care consistent with their individual values, while also minimizing the decisional burden often placed on families when a patient’s wishes are not documented at the end of their life. This quality improvement (QI) project was intended to improve patients’ overall understanding of Advance directives (AD) and improve completion rates in a primary care setting for patients eighty years and above using a multimodal system.
Methods: This QI project occurred in a primary care setting from March 2016 through March 2017. The multi-modal approach used included contacting patients by telephone, …