DC CFAR Investigators, Maureen Lyon, PhD, and Lawrence D'Angelo, MD, MPH, along with their colleagues have published an article in AIDS Care entitled, "A randomized clinical trial of adolescents with HIV/AIDS: pediatric advance care planning".
This article discusses the three month outcomes of a study to determine if pediatric advance care planning (pACP) increases adolescent/ family congruence in end-of-life treatment preferences longitudinally. This longitudinal, single-blinded, multi-site, randomized controlled trial was conducted in six pediatric hospital-based HIV-clinics, located in high HIV mortality cities. The study found overall treatment preference agreement among pACP dyads was high immediately post-intervention, but decreased over time. In contrast, treatment agreement among control dyads was low and remained low over time.
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