Have you seen? Respecting Choices launched a new website! Learn more about what we do. www.respectingchoices.org
Powerful video story from Dixie Regional Medical Center about their commitment to improve ACP practices.
KSL recently aired story about our advanced care planning program — which is bringing end of life discussions to the kitchen table, not the hospital waiting rooms.
The Lancet United States of Health Blog discusses advance care planning and Respecting Choices.
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Advance Directives: Planning for the End | The Lancet USA Blog
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Larry Beresford is a freelance medical journalist in Oakland, CA, with a specialization in hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care | @larryberesford
Recently published, this international study affirms the basic concepts of Respecting Choices. Among the results are an international consensus on definition of ACP and a recommendation that a trained non-physician facilitator can support an individual in the ACP process.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(17)30582-X/abstract
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Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly implemented in oncology and beyond, buta definition of ACP and recommendations concerning its use are lacking. We used aformal Delphi consensus process to help develop a definition of ACP and provide recommendationsfor its application. Of the 109 experts (…
PCORI Board Awards Duke University $5.8 Million for Respecting Choices Study
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Board of Governors has awarded almost $74 million in
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