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. 2018 Jun 26;20(6):e208. doi: 10.2196/jmir.9203

Table 2.

Documented advance care planning (ACP) in electronic health record. Documentation rates represent the percentage of charts that had any form of ACP, and quality is rated by the 20-point scoring criteria.

Patient characteristic Control Intervention
All patients


ACPa documentation rate, N 219 200


Preintervention, n (%) 129 (58.9) 74 (37.0)


Postintervention, n (%) 130 (59.3) 94 (47.0)


Rate percentage increase, n (%) 0.7 27.0

Quality of all documented ACP, N 130 94


Quality rating postintervention, mean 3.26 4.09
Patients aged 50-60 years


ACP documentation rate, N 109 96


Preintervention, n (%) 54 (49.5) 27 (28)


Postintervention, n (%) 55 (50.4) 37 (39)


Rate percentage increase, n (%) 1.8 37

Quality of all documented ACP, N 55 37


Quality rating postintervention, mean 2.81 3.75
Patients who are high portal users (>10 messages in 1 year)


ACP documentation rate, N 82 67


Preintervention, n (%) 51 (62) 27 (40)


Postintervention, n (%) 51 (62) 36 (54)


Rate percentage increase, n (%) 0 33

Quality of ACP documentation, N 51 36


Quality rating postintervention, mean 3.25 4.19

aACP: advance care planning.