Educational Interventions to Improve Advance Care Planning Discussions, Documentation and Billing

Advance care planning discussions with geriatric patients.

BACKGROUND Advance care planning discussions are conversations with patients about future treatment to ensure that the patients' wishes are known if their decision-making capacity fails. Many doctors fear that such conversations represent a strain on patients. We wished to test systematic advance care planning discussions on an acute geriatric ward and to investigate how patients felt about suc...

Educational interventions to advance children's scientific thinking.

The goal of science education interventions is to nurture, enrich, and sustain children's natural and spontaneous interest in scientific knowledge and procedures. We present taxonomy for classifying different types of research on scientific thinking from the perspective of cognitive development and associated attempts to teach science. We summarize the literature on the early--unschooled--devel...

Strategic targeting of advance care planning interventions: the Goldilocks phenomenon.

Strategically selecting patients for discussions and documentation about limiting life-sustaining treatments-choosing the right time along the end-of-life trajectory for such an intervention and identifying patients at high risk of facing end-of-life decisions-can have a profound impact on the value of advance care planning (ACP) efforts. Timing is important because the completion of an advance...

The Effect of Educational Intervention regarding Advance Care Planning for Advance Directives

This study aimed to examine the effects of empowerment and education intervention to promote Advance Care Planning (ACP) for residents in a highly aged and depopulated region. The study utilized a single-group preand post-test design and was conducted in Osakikamijima, Hiroshima, Japan. The researchers and town officials together formed an ACP committee and created an intervention framework. An...

Advance care planning in primary care.