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CDA Personal Advance Care Plan Document Project

Welcome to the Personal Advance Care Plan Project Wiki Site. On these pages we will manage the information necessary to support development of CDA R2 Implementation Guide that specifies how to create a patient generated document with content that expresses an individual's advance care plan, a plan that is made in advance of when it may be needed in order to document a person's care goals, preferences, and priorities, the person's appointed healthcare agents, organ donation preferences, final arrangements, and other such directives.

  • Guiding principles used to manage the project, encourage collaboration, and limit the scope of the content to be included.
    • The PSS sets the scope and boundaries for the project
    • Content requirements will be limited to follow actual examples readily in the United States, available on the internet,and considered to be a reputable reference resource by the steering committee
    • All samples will be considered but the steering committee will narrow the focus to include the top five examples
    • Decision making over controversial topics will be delayed as long as is feasible for the project
      • Options will be developed using in a collaborative approach
      • Input will be sought from Patient Care (Co-sponsor)
      • Input will be sought from a panel of industry experts who are focused on the use case for personal advance care plan documents
      • Final decisions will be governed through Structured Documents (Project Sponsor)
    • Expression of goals, preferences and priorities will be formulated as standard questions, but responses will not be limited to specific coded answers. The objective is to allow a person to answer a "known" question in what ever way fits their intention. Questions shall be structured, answers may be standardized but don't have to be. This specification will not constrain the vocabulary associated with a person's answers.
    • The structure of the document, sections, and entries and the semantics used within will be as aligned with the C-CDA R2.1 Care Plan Document templates as is possible.



Project Information

  • Project Listservs: strucdoc@lists.hl7.org patientcare@lists.hl7.org
Meeting Times Current Agenda

Conference Calls

Technical Team conference call

Meets every Tuesday at 3:00 PM Eastern Time for 1 hour.

Participation Information

Phone Number: +1 (770) 657-9270
Participant Passcode: 310940

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Steering Committee conference call

Once a month on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Eastern Time for 1 hour.
September 15, 2015

Participation Information

GoTo Meeting Conf#: +1 (224) 501-3412
Access Code: 227-809-629

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Agenda Items

Current Agenda - Technical Team

  1. Project Guiding Principles
  2. Requirements Analysis and Documentation
    1. Source documents
  3. Volume 1 Content Outline

Current Agenda - Steering Committee

  1. Steering Committee Introductions
    1. Role of the steering committee
  2. Project Overview
    1. Goal, purpose, tasks and timeline
  3. Project Use Case review
  4. Project Name Discussion
  5. Functional Requirements
    1. Vocabulary Discussion
  6. Open discussion of other guiding considerations for the project
  7. HL7 process  - optional participation for non-members (not required, but possible)

Past Minutes

Open Issues

Open Issues (Last updated 9/2)

ISSUE # Date Entered Summary of Issue Existing Positions Proposed Options Comments
101 2015-08-15 Project title needs to be finalized Many different points of view exist regarding the ideal title for this project

Some feel the title needs to be short to be manageable while other would prefer a longer and more descriptive name Some feel the words "advance care plan" are misleading because they do not see the association to "Care Plan" documents. Others would prefer to see the words "Goals, Preference, and Priorities" in the title. Some feel the word "Patient" or the words "Patient Generated" would help to clarify that this document is a type of patient generated document. Others prefer the term "patient" not be used because individuals may create an advance care document when they are not sick and not a "patient". They argue the term "patient" is too limiting.
Significant discussions on the SDWG listserve regarding the use of the word "patient" or "person" or "individual". Keith Boone has started a survey to ask for feedback. (Posted on Motorcycle Guy blog 2015-09-02)

The project title will be reviewed with the steering committee and this issue will remain open as additional feedback is sought. The present "working title" will be used until an option is developed that carries consensus support

Reference Resources

Resource (Last updated 9/8)

ITEM # Date Added Resource Title Description Link
01 2015-09-08 The Commission on Law and Aging, American Bar Association. Giving Someone a Power of Attorney For Your Health Care: A Guide with an Easy-to-Use, Legal Form for All Adults The form in this guide is a simple version of a Health Care Advance Directive. It allows you to choose someone to make health care decisions for you if you can't. If you name a health care agent when you are healthy, you will make sure that someone you trust can make health care decisions for you if you are injured or become too ill to make them yourself. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:2011_ABA_Model_Directive.pdf
02 2015-09-08 The La Crosse Region Power of Attorney for Healthcare Document A document developed to meet the legal requirements of WI, MN, and IA. This document provides a way for a person to create a power of attorney for healthcare that will meet the basic requirements of these states. Resource includes detailed instructions about how to complete the document. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:12860_POAHC.lse.12.08.pdf
03 2015-09-08 Department of Veterans Affairs - VA Advance Directive Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Living Will This advance directive form is an official document where you can write own your preferences for your health care. If someday you can't make health care decisions for yourself anymore, this advance directive can help guide the people who will make decisions for you. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:Veterans_Administration_Form_Advance_Directive_%28July_2012%29.pdf
04 2015-09-08 Advance Directives for Health Care, Oklahoma Bar Association The form is offered as a public service by the Oklahoma Bar Association. Permission is granted to reproduce without modification. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:OklahomaAdvDirective2006.pdf
05 2015-09-08 MyDirectives.com Universal Advance Directive Document A sample UADD document for a fictitious person, Roger McBee. The advance directive document includes expressions of his medical treatment goals and preferences. There is no guarantee that your medical care providers will follow all of your wishes, but one this is certain: if your advance medical directives cannot be quickly located and retrieved when needed, then medical care providers, your family and friends, will not be able to take your wishes into consideration when they make critical decisions regarding your treatment. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:Roger_McBee_uADD_%288-20-2014%29.pdf
06 2015-09-08 5 Wishes Advance Directive Document A document that allows you to record your wishes for: the person you want to make care decisions for you when you can't, the kind of medical treatment you want or don't want, how comfortable you want to be, how you want people to treat you, and what you want your loved ones to know. http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:5wishes.pdf
07 2015-09-08 Adams Living Will & Power of Attorney for Health Care Kit. Copyright 2009, TOPS Downers Grove IL 60515. Provided under license from the copyright holder, Nova Publishing Co A resource I found at Staples which helps people make their own health care wished know, control the care they receive, and ensure death with dignity if you become incapacitated. Available from www.tops-products.com


08 2015-09-08 Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, A Guide to Your Care Our goal while you are a patient in our hospital is to help you experience the best possible outcome from your stay. For this to happen, everyone--you, your family and your health care team--must all work together and communicate clearly [..] You may be very sick and hard choices may need to be made about your treatment. Making those decisions can be difficult and emotions may be strong. We hope the information in this guide will ease your mind, make you feel comfortable communicating with your health care team about your treatment or any other issues, and enhance the experience of both you and your family. http://baylorhearthospital.com/a-guide-to-your-care.html
09 2015-09-08 Example of document content that IS NOT IN SCOPE for this project, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). First follow these orders, then contact the physician. This document is a Physician Order Sheet based on the person's current medical condition and wishes. Any section not completed implies full treatment for that section. Everyone shall be treated with dignity and respect.

This is an example of a document this IS NOT a Patient Generated Document. Although it may be completed after taking a person's wishes into consideration, it is not an example of the type of Patient Generated Document that this CDA Implementation Guides specifies.

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=File:California_POLST_Form_%282010%29.pdf