Table 3.

Advance Care Planning Content.

Mobile App	ACP Tools	BIDMC Health Care	Contingency Plan—Personal	MedStar CR	My Dot Mediq	My Directives	My Health Proxy	My Living Will	PaperHealth
Knowledge
Describes who can be a medical decision maker
Describes qualities associated with being a good medical decision maker	✓
Describes types of decisions medical decision maker could make	✓						✓		✓
Defines meaning of “flexibility” for medical decision makers
Provides information about what type of flexibility can be afforded to medical decision makers
Provides information about questions one can ask provider about decision-making	✓
Contemplation
Encourages user to think about medical decision maker	✓			✓
Encourages user to ask someone to be medical decision maker				✓					✓
Encourages user to think about whether certain health situations make life worth living	✓			✓				✓
Encourages user to think about preferred care during sickness or near end of life	✓			✓
Encourages user to think about how much flexibility they would give to medical decision maker
Encourages user to talk with medical decision maker about advance care planninga	✓			✓
Encourages user to talk with medical provider about advance care planninga	✓
Encourages user to talk with family and friends about advance care planninga	✓			✓
Decision/Action
User can document preferred medical decision maker		✓			✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Recommends distribution and sharing of advance care planning documentation	✓	✓	✓	✓
Provides mechanism for distribution and sharing of advance care planning documentation		✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	99
Allows user to decide and document health situations that make life not worth living		✓						✓	✓
App permits user to decide and document preferences for medical care in sickness or near the end of life		✓	✓					✓	✓
App permits user to decide and document how much flexibility they would want to give to medical decision maker		✓				✓			✓

99 = unable to determine.

^aDerived from Item 11 from the ACP Engagement Survey.²¹