Patient attitudes toward advance care planning discussion during pre-operative visits

摘要

Although its value to clinicians, patients,1 and healthcare costs2 is undisputed, completion rates of advance care plan-ning (ACP) of any type are estimated at a third of U.S. adults.3 A principal reason for not completing ACP is lack of provider initiative.1,4 Because patients require an ap-pointment with a provider before planned surgery, and because minimal studies of ACP in the pre-operative setting have been conducted,5 our aim was to evaluate patient attitudes toward ACP discussion in a pre-op-erative assessment center (PAC) as a means to increase ACP completion.