Culturally Adapting an Advance Care Planning Communication Intervention With American Indian and Alaska Native People in Primary Care.

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Advance care planning (ACP) is a process in which patients, families, and providers discuss and plan for desired treatment goals. American Indian and Alaska Native people (AI/AN) have higher prevalence of many serious, life-limiting illnesses compared with the general population; yet AI/ANs use ACP considerably less than the overall population.

Citation: Lillie, K. M., Dirks, L. G., Curtis, J. R., Candrian, C., Kutner, J. S., & Shaw, J. L. (2020). Culturally Adapting an Advance Care Planning Communication Intervention With American Indian and Alaska Native People in Primary Care. Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society, 31(2), 178–187. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659619859055

About the journal: The Journal of Transcultural Nursing offers nurses, educators, researchers, and practitioners theoretical approaches and current research findings that have direct implications for the delivery of culturally congruent health care and for the preparation of health care professionals who will provide that care.

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Lillie, K. M., Dirks, L. G., Curtis, J. R., Candrian, C., Kutner, J. S., & Shaw, J. L.
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