Is Advance Care Planning worth advancing?

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…