• Peter Kim, Jeanette M Daly, Maresi A Berry-Stoelzle, Megan E Schmidt, LeAnn C Michaels, David A Dorr, and Barcey T Levy.
• From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA (PK, JMD, MAB-S, MES, BTL); Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA (BTL); Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR (LCM); Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR (DAD).
• J Am Board Fam Med. 2020 Mar 1; 33 (2): 322-338.

BackgroundPatient identification is an important step for advance care planning (ACP) discussions.ObjectivesWe conducted a scoping review to identify prognostic indices potentially useful for initiating ACP.MethodsWe included studies that developed and/or validated a multivariable prognostic index for all-cause mortality between 6 months and 5 years in community-dwelling adults. PubMed was searched in October 2018 for articles meeting our search criteria. If a systematic review was identified from the search, we checked for additional eligible articles in its references. We abstracted data on population studied, discrimination, calibration, where to find the index, and variables included. Each index was further assessed for clinical usability.ResultsWe identified 18 articles with a total of 17 unique prognostic indices after screening 9154 titles. The majority of indices (88%) had c-statistics greater than or equal to 0.70. Only 1 index was externally validated. Ten indices, 8 developed in the United States and 2 in the United Kingdom, were considered clinically usable.ConclusionOf the 17 unique prognostic indices, 10 may be useful for implementation in the primary care setting to identify patients who may benefit from ACP discussions. An index classified as "clinically usable" may not be easy to use because of a large number of variables that are not routinely collected and the need to program the index into the electronic medical record.© Copyright 2020 by the American Board of Family Medicine.

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