Journal of palliative medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A Pilot Feasibility Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning among African Americans in the Deep South.
Despite growing efforts to facilitate advance care planning (ACP) to decrease health disparities in palliative care, low completion rates of advance directives (AD) have been consistently found among African Americans. ⋯ Feasibility data revealed successful implementation of a brief intervention to increase ACP engagement and willingness to complete an AD among southern African Americans.