I think this is a worthwhile study - one that will make a difference in how healthcare professionals initiate ACP conversations with patients and families, as well as how our healthcare wishes/decisions are honoured.
The ACCEPT Initiative is a multi-year, multi-centre, prospective audit
of current practice related to advance care planning (ACP) in patients
who are at high-risk for dying, as well as their families.
"We will
determine the extent to which these patients and families have engaged
in ACP, what barriers and facilitators they perceive, and how satisfied
they are with communication and decision making at the EOL.
Additionally, for those patients who have engaged in ACP activities, we
can compare their outcomes to those who have not. In the Fall of 2011,
we enrolled over 500 hospitalized elderly patients and/or their families
from 12 acute care institutions in Canada."
