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 |
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ACPa documentation rate, N | 219 | 200 | |
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Preintervention, n (%) | 129 (58.9) | 74 (37.0) |
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Postintervention, n (%) | 130 (59.3) | 94 (47.0) |
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Rate percentage increase, n (%) | 0.7 | 27.0 |
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Quality of all documented ACP, N | 130 | 94 | |
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Quality rating postintervention, mean | 3.26 | 4.09 |
| Patients aged 50-60 years |
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ACP documentation rate, N | 109 | 96 | |
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Preintervention, n (%) | 54 (49.5) | 27 (28) |
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Postintervention, n (%) | 55 (50.4) | 37 (39) |
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Rate percentage increase, n (%) | 1.8 | 37 |
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Quality of all documented ACP, N | 55 | 37 | |
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Quality rating postintervention, mean | 2.81 | 3.75 |
| Patients who are high portal users (>10 messages in 1 year) |
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ACP documentation rate, N | 82 | 67 | |
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Preintervention, n (%) | 51 (62) | 27 (40) |
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Postintervention, n (%) | 51 (62) | 36 (54) |
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Rate percentage increase, n (%) | 0 | 33 |
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Quality of ACP documentation, N | 51 | 36 | |
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Quality rating postintervention, mean | 3.25 | 4.19 |
aACP: advance care planning.