Improving Advance Care Planning for Seriously Ill Primary Care Patients: UC Health Care Planning Study

January 2025 - In Grand Rounds 52, Rebecca Sudore, MD, and Anne Walling, MD, PhD, present on "Improving Advance Care Planning (ACP) for Seriously Ill Primary Care Patients: UC Health Care Planning Study". They discuss the evolving ACP definition and research, along with lessons learned from their ACP PCORI pragmatic randomized control trial.

Speakers

Rebecca Sudore, MDRebecca Sudore, MD
Professor of Medicine,
University of California,
San Francisco

Anne Walling, MD, PhDAnne Walling, MD, PhD
Professor-in-Residence,
University of California,
Los Angeles

Learning Objectives

  • The Evolving ACP Definition & Research
  • Lessons for an ACP PCORI Pragmatic RCT
    • Identifying the cohort with validated algorithms
    • Constructing the ACP EMR Intervention Infrastructure
    • Healthcare navigator arm
    • Trial outcomes: NLP
    • Implementation Lessons