TY - JOUR UR - https://doi.org/10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_71_21 DO - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_71_21 TI - Shared Decision-Making, Advance Care Planning for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients AU - Deodhar,Jayita AU - Nagaraju,Shankar Prasad AU - Kirpalani,Ashok L. AU - Nayak,Ajith M AB - Advance care planning (ACP) is a process by which clinicians together with patients and families reflect on and outline care goals to inform current and future care. ACP or shared decision-making is not only about key medical decisions, such as decision about continuing dialysis, or agreement for “not for resuscitation” order when in hospital. The importance of its role in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is less known and not being well practiced in our country. When done well, it involves enhancement of final days, weeks, and months with positive decisions about family relationships, resolution of conflict, and living well until end of life, improved quality of life, decreased anxiety and depression among family members, reduced hospitalizations, increased uptake of hospice and palliative care services, and care that concurs with patient preferences. It lays out a set of relationships, values, and processes for approaching end-of-life decisions for the patient. It also includes attention to ethical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues relating to starting, continuing, withholding, and stopping dialysis. This workshop was done to sensitize ACP as a standard of care intervention in the management of CKD in our country. VL - 27 SN - 0973-1075 SN - 1998-3735 ER -