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Divya Gupta, MD, on Improving Advance Care Planning Conversations With Patients

2021 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

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Divya Gupta, MD, of the Stanford Cancer Center, discusses an intervention utilizing a computer model and lay care coaches to improve advance care planning conversations with patients who have metastatic cancer. The study, Dr. Gupta reports, showed a trend toward less intensive care for patients at the end of life.



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