Scoping Review of Advance Care Planning Timing Perspectives

Comprising the extracted data from a scoping review of 29 studies on the timing of advance care planning from patient and relative perspectives. The review synthesized empirical research on facilitators, challenges, and triggers related to initiating these conversations, focusing on patients with cancer, heart, or lung disease.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of identified timing-related facilitating factors, such as 'clear information about prognosis' and 'ACP as part of standard care', across the 29 included studies.
• Investigate the co-occurrence of patient-related challenges like 'individual needs' and 'coping' with specific illness types (cancer, heart, or lung disease).
• Map the identified trigger points in illness progression to the perspectives of patients versus relatives to understand differences in perceived appropriate timing.

Strengths

• The dataset is based on a systematic scoping review of 29 peer-reviewed studies, providing a structured synthesis of existing evidence.
• The review includes perspectives from both patients and relatives, covering three major disease groups: cancer, heart, and lung disease.
• Data extraction was performed independently by two researchers, which can enhance reliability.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 17.5 KB, indicating it contains summary-level extracted data rather than raw study data, limiting analytical depth.
• The review's scope is limited to three specific disease groups (cancer, heart, lung), so findings may not generalize to other conditions.
• The temporal coverage of included studies is not specified beyond the search date, which could affect the recency of the synthesized evidence.

Provenance

Source

Scoping review conducted via PubMed and CINAHL databases.

Collection Method

Data extracted from 29 eligible studies and clustered using thematic analysis.

Time Range

Literature search covered studies up to April 2023, with an update in June 2025.

Freshness

The underlying literature search was updated in June 2025, and the dataset record was last updated in March 2026.