17.1.2018
Chaplains Effective in Facilitating Advance Care Planning
The researchers found that all patients agreed to meet the chaplain; the mean time of the consultation was 23 minutes. In association with these meetings, 80 percent of patients completed an AD or provided documentation of an existing AD for their medical record. The topics discussed with the chaplain included current life circumstances, family members and support system, experience with critical illness and end of life decisions, palliative care and hospice, and the role of faith in their lives and influence of belief on health care decision making.
