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Table 2 General information about paper ACP aids

From: A review of paper-based advance care planning aids

Title (assigned number)

Origin

Org.

# pages

# words

Read levela

Cat.

Real pictures

Color

Dev. Score

Your Conversation Starter Kit (1)

USA

IHI

10

1977

5.5

AO

 

✔

0

Consumer’s Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning (2)

USA

ABA

26

7362

8.4

AO

 

✔

1

Your Life Your Choices (3)

USA

VA

53

18,937

5.5

AO

 

✔

1

Planning for Future Health Care Decisions My Way (4)

USA

VA

78

19,122

7.1

AO

✔

✔

1

Caring Conversations: Making Your Healthcare Wishes Known (5)

USA

CPB

16

6210

9.4

AO

✔

✔

2

How to Talk to Your Doctor (6)

USA

IHI

9

2314

7.5

SA

✔

✔

0

10 Conversations to Plan for Aging with Dignity & Independence (7)

USA

TSF

7

1917

10.4

SA

✔

✔

1

Advance Care Planning (8)

USA

HFSA

28

2574

11.7

SA

✔

✔

1

Five Wishes (9)

USA

AD

11

1212

7.4

SA

 

✔

1

The Medical Directive (10)

USA

Res

7

2494

8.8

SA

  

1

Looking Ahead: Choices for Medical Care When You’re Seriously Ill (11)

USA

IMDF

59

13,703

8.4

In

 

✔

1

If Talking Is So Important Why Is It So Hard? (12)

USA

NHPCO

12

4948

6.8

In

✔

✔

1

Living Will (13)

CA

–

24

10,005

10.9

In

  

1

End-of-Life Decisions (14)

USA

CC

23

8103

10.5

In

 

✔

0

Advance Directive: Planning Ahead (15)

USA

KP

6

1501

9.2

In

✔

✔

0

  1. aFlesh-Kincaid Grade Level, Org Organization that produced video, USA United States of America, Can Canada, Cat Category AO: action oriented, SA Semi-action oriented, In informative, IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ABA American Bar Association, VA Department of Veteran Affairs, CPB Center for Practical Bioethics, IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement, TSF The Scan Foundation, HFSA Heart Failure Society of America, AD Aging with Dignity, IMDF Informed Medical Decision Foundation, CC Caring Connection, KP Kaiser Permanente, Dev score Development process score according to one component of IPDAS checklist