title: Advance care planning: ethical and clinical implications for hospital medicine.
abstract: Advance care planning takes place 'in advance of' anticipated loss of capacity with the aim of informing the best interests judgments required when capacity is later lost. It is an ethically and clinically distinct subset of general care planning.
authors.affiliation: Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Isle of Wight Primary Care Trust, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 2ER, UK.
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Randall
mesh_terms: D032722:Advance Care Planning / Q000941:ethics*; D016223:Advance Directives; D003657:Decision Making; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques