Advance Care Planning in Switzerland: Chances and challenges of delivering high-quality ACP in a small high-income, multilingual, federally organized country

Clavien, Christine; Ehlers, Ulrike; Jox, Ralf; Karzig, Isabelle; Krones, Tanja; Loupatzatzis, Barbara; Monteverde, Settimio; Theile, Gudrun (2023). Advance Care Planning in Switzerland: Chances and challenges of delivering high-quality ACP in a small high-income, multilingual, federally organized country Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 180, pp. 115-120. Urban & Fischer; Elsevier 10.1016/j.zefq.2023.04.008

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We describe the development of ACP in Switzerland during the last decade in the German- and French-speaking cantons and on the national level. In 2013, a revision of the Swiss civil law came into force, declaring advance directives (ADs) as binding. Since then, ACP has been researched and implemented primarily by universities and university hospitals. Despite the foundation of the national association “ACP Swiss” in 2020, several national initiatives, and a roadmap for a national implementation, many challenges and barriers still remain. There is, however, reasonable hope to implement high-quality ACP throughout Switzerland within the next ten years.

Item Type:

 Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

 School of Health Professions
School of Health Professions > Nursing
School of Health Professions > G Teaching

Name:

 Clavien, Christine;
Ehlers, Ulrike;
Jox, Ralf;
Karzig, Isabelle;
Krones, Tanja;
Loupatzatzis, Barbara;
Monteverde, Settimio0000-0002-7041-2663 and
Theile, Gudrun

Subjects:

 R Medicine > R Medicine (General)

ISSN:

 1865-9217

Publisher:

 Urban & Fischer; Elsevier

Language:

 English

Submitter:

 Settimio Monteverde

Date Deposited:

 19 Jul 2023 14:22

Last Modified:

 31 Aug 2023 01:30

Publisher DOI:

 10.1016/j.zefq.2023.04.008

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

 Advance Care Planning Shared decision-making Peri-interventional Advance Care Planning Switzerland

ARBOR DOI:

 10.24451/arbor.19645

URI:

 https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19645

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