Wednesday 21 November 2018

Cultural factors influencing advance care planning in progressive, incurable disease: a systematic review with narrative synthesis.

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2018 56(4) p.613-636
McDermott, Ella; Selman, Lucy Ellen

Low uptake of advance care planning indicates it is less acceptable to patients of some cultural backgrounds. The objectives of this study were to explore how cultural factors influence ACP for patients with progressive, incurable disease and how ACP might be made cross-culturally appropriate.