Table 1.

Advance care planning documentation rates from 2013–2014 for patients with serious illness 65 or older, for interviewed providers.

Providers Interviewed		Primary Care A	Specialists B
Providers	Number of providers interviewed	3	10
AHCD Documentation	Providers with zero AHCD documentations	1 (33%)	10 (100%)
	Range of number of AHCD documentations among physicians	0, 11	0, 0
	Highest rate AHCD documentation by a physician	69.00% (11/16)	0.00% (0/98)
POLST Documentation	Providers with zero POLST documentations	0 (0%)	6 (60%)
	Range of number of POLST documentations among physicians	2, 3	0, 2
	Highest rate POLST documentation by a physician	18.8% (3/16)	8.30% (2/24)

^ACombined Internal Medicine and Family Medicine into Primary Care category.

^BSpecialists included physicians from cardiology, oncology and pulmonology departments. Reported sample excludes 1 Cardiology department nurse practitioner was interviewed but whose rates of ACP documentation were not available in the EHR.

Note: The rate of ACP documented is for new documentations of ACP in the EHR problem list by December 31, 2014 for patients who had no pre-existing ACP documentation on January 1, 2013. These ACP documentations were all matched to individual physicians who entered them into the EHR using a provider key. The sample included patients 65 or older with at least one serious illness as defined by National Committee for Quality Assurance/The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement: Palliative and End of Life Care: Physician Performance Measurement Set 2008. Patients also must have had at least one office visit in a 24 month period.