Table 1.

Characteristics of Studies of Advance Care Planning

				Characteristics
Source	Study Design	Type of Participants	N	Demographics	Study Inclusion Criteria	Definition of ACP
Erlandson et al,11 2012	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Patients	369	70% aged >55 y; 84% men; 76% white; 72% without college-level education; 20% were admitted to the hospital in the prior year	Aged 45-65 y; taking antiretroviral therapy; plasma HIV RNA level < 200 copies/mL in the prior 6 mo	“Do you have an advance directive, living will, or durable power of attorney of health care decisions?”
de Caprariis et al,16 2013	Retrospective chart review	Patients	182	Median age, 47 y; 70% men; median time from HIV diagnosis, 9.5 y	Admitted to the hospital between 2004 and 2011	Any living will, health care proxy, or do-not-resuscitate order
Mosack et al,17 2015	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Practitioners and patients	11 and 42, respectively	65% men; 91% black; 25% had been diagnosed with AIDS at the time of the study	HIV specialists in a midsized Midwestern city and HIV-seropositive persons from the same clinics	The medical care one would want to receive should they become ill
Barocas et al,18 2015	Retrospective chart review	Patients	588	Mean age, 47 y; 81% men; 72% white; 41% had private insurance; mean CD4+ cell count, 634/μL	Aged >18 y; not in a prison or menta health facility; no legal guardian	An advance directive that allows patients to communicate health care preferences in the event that they are no longer able to make decisions
Wenger et al,19 2001	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Patients	2864	89% aged >50 y; 77% men; 49% white; 52% without high school-level education; 59% had AIDS	Aged >18 y with 1 visit to a nonmilitary, nonprison medical practitioner	Any end-of-life communication
Curtis et al,20 1999	Prospective cohort	Practitioners and patients	38 and 57, respectively	Median age, 39 y; 52% men; 65% white; 79% without college-level education; 63% with >24 mo since AIDS diagnosis	Prior AIDS-defining illness and CD4+ cel count <100/μL	Communications about end-of-life care
Mouton et al,21 1997	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Patients	861	Mean age, 35 y; 90% men; 66% white; 70% MSM; 47% without college-level education; 88% with AIDS	Aged >18 y	"Have you told your physicians that this is the approach you want taken in your treatment?"
Hutson,22 2015	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Patients	9	77% aged >50 y; 55% men; 66% white; 66% without college-level education; average time since HIV diagnosis, 16 y	Aged >21 y, residing in an Appalachian county in Tennessee	Not defined
Curtis et al,23 1997	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Practitioners and patients	19 and 47, respectively	Median age, 38 y; 66% men; 64% white	AIDS-defining illness and CD4+ cell count < 200/μL	The kind of care one would want if they became too ill to speak for themselves
Karasz et al,24 2003	Cross-sectional survey/interview	Practitioners	16	Mean time in field, 16 y; 75% men	Caring for late-stage HIV-infected patients	Not defined
Curtis et al,25 2000	Prospective cohort	Practitioners and patients	38 and 57, respectively	Mean age, 39 y; 91% men; 65% white, 64% with CD4+ cell count > 200/μL	AIDS-defining illness and CD4+ cell count > 100/μL	The kind of care one would want if they became too ill to speak for themselves

Abbreviations: ACP, advance care planning; MSM, men who have sex with men.