• J Emerg Med · Apr 2023

    Advance Care Planning Among Patients With Advanced Illness Presenting to the Emergency Department.

    • Joshua N Asiaban, Sohil Patel, Cora H Ormseth, Kevin C Donohue, Dina Wallin, Ralph C Wang, and Maria C Raven.
    • School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
    • J Emerg Med. 2023 Apr 1; 64 (4): 476480476-480.

    BackgroundAdvance care planning (ACP) benefits emergency department (ED) patients with advanced illness. Although Medicare implemented physician reimbursement for ACP discussions in 2016, early studies found limited uptake.ObjectiveWe conducted a pilot study to assess ACP documentation and billing to inform the development of ED-based interventions to increase ACP.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective chart review to quantify the proportion of ED patients with advanced illness with Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) or coding of ACP discussion in the medical record. We surveyed a subset of patients via phone to evaluate ACP participation.ResultsOf 186 patients included in the chart review, 68 (37%) had a POLST and none had ACP discussions billed. Of 50 patients surveyed, 18 (36%) recalled prior ACP discussions.ConclusionsGiven the low uptake of ACP discussions in ED patients with advanced illness, the ED may be an underused setting for interventions to increase ACP discussions and documentation.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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