Patient Choices Program Research Articles

IMPLEMENTATION OF ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (ACP) IN GENERAL PRACTICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF OUTREACH ACP FACILITATORS

BackgroundFollowing the success of the smaller 2010 pilot study, this initiative was 12 month collaboration between Barwon Health's Respecting Patient Choices (RPC) program, 18 General Practice Clinics from within the...

SUCCESSFUL INTERVENTION: RAISING AWARENESS OF ADVANCED CARE PLANNING (ACP) IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY SETTING

BackgroundIn 2009 in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, a group formed to promote the Respecting Patient Choices Program and ACP in their community. The group represents nurses, (aged and acute...

The effectiveness of employing exclusive advance care planning (ACP) clinicians

ACP improves end-of-life care and patient/family satisfaction. Nevertheless, health professionals struggle to include ACP in their busy work schedule in a university hospital environment. In response, since 2008, the Respecting...

Final evaluation of the “Making Health Choices” advance care planning in aged care project

Published literature suggests that advance care planning (ACP) activity in aged-care homes is inconsistent and often of poor quality. There are few published reports of the effectiveness of formal training...

Evolution of advance care planning in Australia – launching the new international advance care planning and end of life care society

Although there were small areas of interest in advance care planning (ACP) and the ability to refuse treatment in Australia as early as 1987, the implementation of and research in,...

An Australian state's experience of implementing advance care planning: snapshots from Victorian health services

The structured, supported platform provided by the Respecting Patient Choices program has been the foundation and precursor to the development of innovative and responsive Advance Care Planning (ACP) models that...

Making difficult conversations easier: the cards, the kit and the quill

The preferences of patients, families and health professionals for preparations for dying have been identified by Steinhauser (JPSM September 2001;22(3)).Based on this work, CodaAlliance has developed the ‘GoWish’ card game...

‘We were here – Three persons' journeys of life’

Narrative interviewing can be traced in American history as far back as 1920. Its application to Advance Care Planning (ACP) as a research method has yet to be extensively researched...

Health advance directives, policy and clinical practice: a perspective on the synergy of an effective advance care planning framework

The delivery of quality care at the end of life should be seamless across all health care settings and independent from variables such as institutional largeness, charismatic leadership, funding sources and blind luck ... People have come to fear the prospect of a technologically protracted death or abandonment with untreated emotional and physical stress.