Advance Care Planning in an Accountable Care Organization Is Associated with Increased Advanced Directive Documentation and Decreased Costs.

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) documents patient wishes and increases awareness of palliative care options.

Objective: To study the association of outpatient ACP with advanced directive documentation, utilization, and costs of care.

Design: This was a case-control study of cases with ACP who died matched 1:1 with controls.

Deliberate Practice with Standardized Patient Actors and the Development of Formative Feedback for Advance Care Planning Facilitators.

Objective: Multimodal curricular assessment after adding standardized patient (SP) actor-based simulation to an advance care planning (ACP) facilitator training course and development of a formative feedback tool.

Background: ACP represents a highly valued service requiring more and better trained facilitators.

Methods: Participants were primarily nurses and social workers in a large multisite health system.