A New Model of Advance Care Planning

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH DEATH is one of the few universal truths in our society, end-of-life care practices may not adequately address the needs of the dying.1-5 Recent initiatives to improve end-of-life care (such as the American Medical Association's Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care Project, the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Last Acts Initiative) include efforts to improve advance care planning (ACP) and the use of written advance directives (ADs).6,7