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Article History

Received: 6 April 2022

Accepted: 23 June 2022

First Online: 16 July 2022

Declarations

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: The project has been reviewed and approved by the George Washington University Committee on Human Research, Institutional Review Board (IRB), FWA00005945 IRB# NCR213481, “Implementing Advance Care Planning for Dialysis Patients” Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Standard consent processes as approved by the IRB will be used to enroll social workers or nurses in the project training. The consent process for recording an advance care planning conversation conducted by social worker/nurse with a patient has several steps. As approved by the IRB, the consent for the audio-recorded conversation involves obtaining verbal consent, with a waiver of documentation of consent for patients who agree to have an ACP conversation recorded. To obtain this consent, a member of the project team will set up a WebEx call with social worker/nurse and patient and will explain the project, answer questions, and obtain verbal consent to audio record the conversation and create a transcription from the audio record. Once both patient and clinician have consented to the recording, the project team member will begin the recording, but leave the WebEx session so that the patient will have privacy during their conversation. Processes for temporarily storing the recording, creating, and storing a transcript for analysis, have been approved by the IRB.

: Not applicable.

: DL, serves on the executive committee of the Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients and on the advisory board for Monogram Health. EA, serves on the executive committee of the Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients. None of the other authors have a conflict of interest.