Advance care planning is a best practice that includes health care proxies and POLST forms. Based on a review of 10 years of medical records for a large regional hospital, the presenter found ACP for incarcerated patients was significantly lower than for the general population. In this presentation, she discusses the study's findings, reviews an ethics consultation case example, and addresses barriers to ACP.

Educational Objectives

• Identify why advance care planning is important for incarcerated patients
• Review the study's findings of which incarcerated patients have advance care planning documents
• Discuss barriers to advance care planning for incarcerated patients and interventions for addressing those barriers

Level: Basic