Advance Care Planning

Teens with cancer who participated in family-centered advance care planning reported greater levels of pain, depression and anxiety after 12 months, according to results published in Pediatrics.

A multilevel care intervention increase advanced care planning versus clinician-level intervention alone for patients with genitourinary cancer, according to study results.

CHICAGO — An application-based intervention improved communication about advance care planning between oncologists and patients with advanced cancers, according to randomized study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Patients with cancer who took part in advance care planning tended to have less aggressive and more comfort-based end-of-life care than those who did not, according to a study conducted by researchers at Regenstrief Institute.

Nurse-led primary palliative care led to significantly higher uptake of advance care planning vs. standard care among patients with advanced cancers, according to study results in JCCN — Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Families of patients undergoing dialysis demonstrated an incomplete understanding of how their relative with kidney failure would choose to approach end-of-life care, study results indicated.

The Sharing and Talking About My Preferences intervention increased patient participation in advance care planning in ambulatory care settings, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Few African American individuals with cancer completed advance directives despite a high level of advance care planning readiness in this population, according to results presented at the virtual Oncology Nursing Society Congress.

Patients with decompensated cirrhosis had insufficient advanced care planning during their trajectory of illness until end of life, according to JAMA Internal Medicine.

To the edior: After reading your Cover Story on medical management without dialysis in the January 2021 issue, I reviewed two recent articles that point to gaps in knowledge in the kidney community about implementing this modality option.