title: Planning end of life care.
abstract: Advance care planning includes clarifying patients' understanding of their illness and treatment options and their values, beliefs and goals of care. Much of the focus on advance care planning has been on improving the completion of advance directives but this does not necessarily improve medical or end of life care. In this study patients were randomised to receive usual care or usual care plus facilitated advance care planning.
authors.affiliation: University of Portsmouth.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sander