Methods
Development of the PREPARE Website
The novel content of the PREPARE website
builds on extensive previous research by others
and on our previously published conceptual
framework of ACP focused on preparing patients
and surrogates for informed medical
decision making.1 PREPARE content also is
based on 13 focus groups of diverse, Englishand
Spanish-speaking older patients and surrogate
decision makers with experience making
serious medical decisions. Participants in these