Disclosures and Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs and the National Palliative
Care Research Center Foundation. The
funding sources had no role in the creation of
study materials, data collection, analysis, or interpretation
of the data. No authors report any
conflicts of interest.
The authors thank Terri Fried, MD, Professor
of Medicine, Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and the
Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System
for generously sharing her advance care
planning behavior change surveys and for providing
advice about our methods.