Effects of a Structured Advance Care Planning Guide Among Patients With Advanced Illness in Hospital Care Settings

The ACP guide is adapted from the Serious Illness Communication Guide and a culturally-sensitive ACP programme developed in the local context. The trained ACP facilitators will initiate the conversation by introducing the concepts of ACP with the support of the guide and assessing the patient's illness understanding and readiness to think about end-of-life care issues.

In the current practice, patients will have to take the initiative themselves if they would like to discuss their end-of-life care or make an advance directive.