Advance Care Planning in Older Adults With Multiple Medical Conditions Undergoing High-Risk Surgery

High-risk surgery in older adults with multiple comorbid conditions (MCC) leads to major life-altering complications for at least 1 in 5 patients. In order to prepare patients and families for these adverse outcomes, advance care planning (ACP) must occur in the pre-operative setting. Little is known about ACP among older adults with MCC.

The goal of this pilot project is to determine the prevalence of pre-operative documentation of ACP among older, high-risk surgical patients with MCC and the patient characteristics associated with ACP documentation.

PI is Victoria Tang, MD, MAS, UCSF; site PI is Ellis Dillon, Ph.D. Co-investigators are Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D., MPH; Rebecca Sudore, M.D., UCSF; Yan Yang, Ph.D., PAMF Research Institute; and John Boscardin, Ph.D., UCSF.

Principal Investigator

External PI, Principal Investigator, Ellis C. Dillon, Ph.D.

Funder

National Institute on Aging (through Health Care Systems Research Network and the Older American Independence Centers AGING Initiative

Start Date

December 01, 2016

End Date

November 30, 2017