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Researchers have developed an interactive online advance care planning program called PREPARE. It is written at a fifth-grade level and includes videos that address choosing a medical decision maker and expressing preferences for life-sustaining treatment in the event of serious illness. In previous randomized trials, outpatients (age, ≥60) from veterans and safety-net clinics reviewed either an advance directive form alone or an advance directive form plus the PREPARE program. Patients in the PREPARE group were more likely to engage in advance planning, according to documentation in these patients' medical records and completion of advance directive forms.
Now, researchers report an analysis of audiotaped primary care visits that were sched…