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Advance Care Planning: Challenges and Opportunities: A Virtual Workshop

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The virtual public workshop provided a venue to explore the challenges and opportunities of advance care planning, acknowledge and highlight divergent viewpoints, and examine what is empirically known and not known about advance care planning and its outcomes. The workshop identified areas where more data and research are needed to fill evidentiary gaps, as well as identify potential approaches to improve the practice of advance care planning.

The workshop was held over two webinars on October 26, 2020 and November 2, 2020.

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Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and host a one-day public workshop that will explore the current state of advance care planning and examine the role of effective communication across the lifespan about the care and treatment preferences of patients facing serious illness. The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include ways to:

  • Improve communication between clinicians and patients and their families
  • Coordinate advance care planning discussions across care transitions
  • Achieve and measure goal-concordant care
  • Assess the impact of effective advance care planning on patient outcomes and health care spending
  • Incorporate advance care planning in electronic health records
  • Overcome challenges with health literacy and cultural competency
  • Educate and involve younger generations in advance care planning

The planning committee will develop the agenda for the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Collaborators

Committee

Robert M. Arnold

Co-Chair

Patricia A. Bomba

Member

Jane Carmody

Member

Anna Gosline

Member

Denise Hess

Member

Haiden A. Huskamp

Member

Rebecca A. Kirch

Member

Bernard Lo

Member

R. S. Morrison

Member

Judith R. Peres

Member

JoAnne Reifsnyder

Member

Leonard D. Schaeffer

Member

Kimberly Sherell Johnson

Member

Rebecca Sudore

Member

James A. Tulsky

Member

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Staff

Laurene Graig

Lead

Anesia Wilks

Kaitlyn Friedman

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