Is Advance Care Planning worth advancing?
Thu 31 Mar
|via Zoom
Join our free webinar on 31st March, where two respected experts will discuss the future of Advance Care Planning and the implications for end of life care. Click 'RSVP' to register for your place.


Time & Location
31 Mar 2022, 12:00 – 13:00 BST
via Zoom
Guests
About the Event
This free webinar from the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person features insights from leading international practitioners in end of life care on the future of Advance Care Planning.
PROGRAMME
Following the Science: The lessons of Advance Care Planning
Professor R. Sean Morrison, MD
Advance care planning (ACP) emerged over the last thirty years as a potential response to the problem of low value end-of-life care. The assumption that ACP will result in goal concordant end-of-life care led to wide-spread public initiatives promoting its use, physician reimbursement for ACP discussions, and use as a quality measure. However, the scientific data do not support this assumption. Over the last twenty-five years, studies have evaluated ACP using various methods and across large groups of patients. Despite the intrinsic logic of ACP, the evidence suggests ACP does not does not improve end-of-life care or enhance goal-concordant care. Its documentation…