ArticleBMJ supportive & palliative care2015
What do Canadians think of advanced care planning? Findings from an online opinion poll.
Article in BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Advance Care Planning for Critical Care - A Prelude to Breaking Barriers
A Randomized Control Trial of an Advance Care Planning Intervention to Engaged Substitute Decision-makers in Primary Care
A Randomized Trial of ACP/GCD Care Pathway in Primary Care in Alberta
Improving Advance Care Planning for Frail, Elderly Residents in Canadian Nursing Homes: A Subproject of the BABEL Study (Better tArgetting, Better Outcomes for Frail ELderly Patients)
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient perceptions of advance care planning within primary care: a systematic review of facilitators and barriers.BMC primary care · 2025Pooled it
- Advance care planning engagement in patients with chronic, life-limiting illness: baseline findings from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Trial
- BABEL (Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients) advance care planning: a comprehensive approach to advance care planning in nursing homes: a cluster randomised trial.Age and ageing · 2022Trial
- Resuscitation preference conversation typologies: a constructivist grounded theory study.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Article
- Attitudes to earlier advance care planning: a qualitative interview study in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026Article
- Exploring death literacy with allied health professionals: A cross-sectional survey in Australia.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Engagement in advance care planning: effect of playing the card game Anticip'action in a community setting.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Decomposition and comparative analysis of urban-rural disparity in attitude towards advance care planning among Chinese adults: A nationwide study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Attitudes of the Portuguese population towards advance directives: an online survey.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Web-based questionnaire survey for exploring engagement characteristics of advance care planning in Japan: a cross-sectional study.BMC research notes · 2024Article
- Gender and couple status differences in advance care planning: a cross-sectional study.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
- ACP Conversations with Chinese and South Asian Patients: Physicians' Perspectives of Barriers and Facilitating Factors.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2023Article
- Public perceptions of advance care planning (ACP) from an international perspective: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
- Association between resilience and advance care planning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a nationwide cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Patient perspectives and use of copayment assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2023Article
- A Quality Assessment of Goals of Care Forms in a Sample of Older Patients in Various Care Settings in Quebec, Canada.Cureus · 2023Article
- Healthcare Providers' Perceptions on the Timing of Initial Advance Care Planning Discussions in Japan: a Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Age-Specific and Sex-Specific Trends in Life-Sustaining Care After Acute Stroke.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
- Positive attitudes to advance care planning - a Norwegian general population survey.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Advance care directive prevalence among older Australians and associations with person-level predictors and quality indicators.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdvance care planning (ACP) has the potential to increase patient-centred care, reduce caregiver burden, and reduce healthcare costs at the end of life. Current levels of public participation in ACP activities are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of engagement of average Canadians in ACP activities.
methodsData come from an on-line opinion poll of a national sample of respondents who were asked five questions on ACP activities along with their sociodemographic characteristics.
resultsRespondents were from all provinces of Canada, 52% were women, and 33% were between 45 years and 54 years of age. Of 1021 national sample respondents, 16% were aware of the term, ACP (95% CI 13% to 18%), 52% had discussions with their family or friends (95% CI 49% to 55%), and 10% had discussions with healthcare providers (95% CI 8% to 12%). Overall, 20% (95% CI 18% to 22%) of respondents had a written ACP and 47% (95% CI 44% to 50%) had designated a substitute decision maker. Being older was associated with significantly more engagement in ACP activities and there were significant differences in ACP engagement across Canada.
conclusionsAlthough only a small proportion of Canadians are aware of the formal term, ACP, a higher percentage of Canadians are actually engaged in ACP, through either having discussions or making decisions about end-of-life care. Older citizens are more likely to be engaged in ACP and there are geographic differences in the level of ACP engagement across Canada.
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