Title | Author(s) | Purpose | A design | Sitting | Result |
“Conditional Candour” and “Knowing Me”: An Interpretive Description Study on Patient Preferences for Physician Behaviours during End-of-Life Communication. | Abdul-Razzak et al. [14] | To understand patients’ preferences for physician behaviours during end-of-life (EOL) communication. | Qualitative study | Canada | Patients are mentally prepared to receive the information to engage in EOL conversations. |
“Doctor, Make My Decisions”: Decision Control Preferences, Advance Care Planning, and Satisfaction with Communication among Diverse Older Adults. | Chiu et al. [15] | To determine the Decision control preferences (DCPs) of diverse, older adults and whether DCPs are associated with participant characteristics, advance care planning (ACP), and communication satisfaction. | Quantitative study | San Francisco, USA | To ask questions to doctors and question-asking behaviors. |
Readiness of Chinese Frail Old Age Home Residents towards End-of-Life Care Decision Making. | Chan and Pang [16] | To identify different approaches to EOL care decision-making among Chinese frail old age home residents. | Qualitative study | Hong Kong | They were pursuing in their life after the conscious cognitive process of considering their personal wishes for end-of-life care, together with more knowledge about the potential benefits and burdens of these treatments. |
“Talk to Me”: A Mixed Methods Study on Preferred Physician Behaviours during End-of-Life Communication from the Patient Perspective. | Abdul-Razzak et al. [17] | To understand patient perspectives on physician behaviours during EOL communication. | Mixed methods study | Canada | EOL discussion with a physician, including discussions about resuscitation preferences. |
Development of Personalized Health Messages to Promote Engagement in Advance Care Planning. | Fried et al. [18] | To develop and test the acceptability of personalized intervention materials to promote ACP based on the Transtheoretical Model, in which readiness to change is a critical organizing construct. | Quantitative study | - | Completion of a living will, naming a health care proxy, communication with loved ones about quality vs. quantity of life, and communication with clinicians about quality vs. quantity of life. |
Association of Experience with Illness and End-of-Life Care with Advance Care Planning in Older Adults. | Amjad et al. [19] | To examine whether experiences with illness and EOL care are associated with increased readiness to participate in ACP. | Observational cohort study | - | Completion of a living will and/or healthcare proxy, discussion of life-sustaining treatment and quantity versus quality of life with loved ones, and discussion of quantity versus quality of life with physicians. |