Table 4:

Site characteristics

Site characteristics	No. (%) of participating sites n = 12
Academic or teaching facility	12 (100.0)
A mechanism in place to enable access to the most current advance care planning/goal-of-care discussion documents	11 (91.7)
A standardized folder or other strategy to locate advance care planning/goal-of-care discussion documents	12 (100.0)
Ensures that clinical staff have access to the necessary professional development resources	11 (91.7)
Documented advance care planning policies and procedures	10 (83.3)
Policies and procedures in place so that “high-risk” patients participate in advance care planning/goal-of-care discussion processes	7 (58.3)
A continuous quality improvement initiative that audits and provides feedback to teams	6 (50.0)
Management evaluates advance care planning knowledge and skills among relevant staff	8 (66.7)
A process in place whereby patients with a specific disease are offered disease-specific advance directives	4 (33.3)