Factors Impacting Advance Care Planning among African Americans: Results of a Systematic Integrated Review

The multiple factors that impact ACP for AA are inter-related and may result in part from historical realities that shape contemporary experience. We know little from the data about how best to improve ACP in AA. That AA appear to prefer informal discussions about ACP to formal documentation of preferences suggests that future research should focus on improving ACP conversations among clinicians, patients, and their families in order to improve the receipt of goal-concordant care at EOL.