Improving Advance Care Planning in the UC Health Systems

This five-year PCORI award was funded to implement the PREPARE for Your Care program and advance care planning messaging into automated messages in the patient portal for primary care patients with serious illness across UCLA, UC Irvine, and UCSF. 

For more information, see: 

  1. Population-Based Pragmatic Trial of Advance Care Planning in Primary Care in the University of California Health System (September 2019) 

  1. Telephone Outreach Enhances Recruitment of Underrepresented Seriously Ill Patients for an Advance Care Planning Pragmatic Trial (January 2023) 

  1. Implementation Challenges for a Multi-site Advance Care Planning Pragmatic Trial: Lessons Learned (April 2023) 

  1. Standard HIPAA Authorization Forms Decreased Response Rates for a Multi-site Pragmatic Trial (October 2024)