TABLE 2.
Prevalence and types of ACP documentation completed by the person, by a health‐care professional and/or by someone else (family, carer, etc) by health sector and overall
| Type of documentation | Unweighted | Weighted | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
GP (n = 676) n (%) |
Hospital (n = 1122) n (%) |
RACF (n = 2389) n (%) |
Overall (n = 4187) n (%) |
Overall estimate n (%) |
|
| No ACP documentation identified | 602 (89.1%) | 892 (79.5%) | 747 (31.3%) | 2241 (53.5%) | 70.8% |
| ACD by the persona | 37 (5.5%) | 124 (11.1%) | 900 (37.7%) | 1061 (25.3%) | 14.2% |
| Statutory ACD preferences for carea | 6 (0.9%) | 36 (3.2%) | 207 (8.7%) | 249 (5.9%) | 3.6% |
| Statutory ACD‐SDMa | 22 (3.3%) | 93 (8.3%) | 396 (16.6%) | 511 (12.2%) | 6.1% |
| Non‐statutory ACDa | 21 (3.1%) | 30 (2.7%) | 429 (18.0%) | 480 (11.5%) | 6.9% |
| ACD by the person onlyb | 30 (4.4%) | 110 (9.8%) | 668 (28%) | 808 (19.3%) | 10.7% |
| Non‐ACD documents completed by a health‐care professionala | 42 (6.2%) | 606 (54.0%) | 856 (35.8%) | 1504 (35.9%) | 9.7% |
| Medical ordera | 1 (0.1%) | 545 (48.6%) | 599 (25.1%) | 1145 (27.3%) | ‐ |
| ACP discussion recordsa | 42 (6.2%) | 95 (8.5%) | 354 (14.8%) | 491 (11.7%) | ‐ |
| Non‐ACD documents completed by a health‐care professional onlyb | 35 (5.2%) | 87 (7.2%) | 129 (5.4%) | 245 (5.9%) | 6.5% |
| Non‐ACD documents completed by someone elsea | 2 (0.3%) | 29 (2.6%) | 726 (30.4%) | 757 (18.1%) | 10.6% |
| Non‐ACD documents completed by someone else onlyb | 2 (0.3%) | 21 (1.9%) | 533 (22.3) | 556 (13.3%) | 7.2% |
Abbreviations: ACP, advance care planning; ACD, advance care directive; SDM, substitute decision maker; GP, general practice; RACF, residential aged care facility.
a
Totals may not be equal as more than one can apply.
b
Refers to those health records containing only one document.