The complexity of advance care planning

The complexity of advance care planning

A brief shared today summarizes community and physician perspectives on advance care planning (ACP). Recommendations are grouped into three categories: normalizing the conversation around advance care planning, investing in ACP training and reimbursement—such as encouraging medical schools to invest in training all physicians to have advance care planning conversations with patients—and establishing metrics and operationalizing advanced care planning—such as having clear requirements for what constitutes a reimbursable advance care planning conversation.