Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The effect of a social work intervention to enhance advance care planning documentation in the nursing home.
To assess the effect of a multicomponent advance care planning intervention directed at nursing home social workers on identification and documentation of preferences for medical treatments and on patient outcomes. ⋯ This generalizable intervention directed at nursing home social workers significantly improved the documentation and identification of patients' wishes regarding common life-sustaining treatments and resulted in a higher concordance between patients' prior stated wishes and treatments received.