Are patient preferences for end‐of‐life care socially influenced? Examining racial disparities in advance care planning

Future research should continue empirical investigations into the social influences and additional factors responsible for the modification of preferences among racially/ethnically diverse patients with terminal cancer, because these factors would be informative for the development of a culturally sensitive, patient‐centered advance planning intervention for such patients. Advance care planning interventions have the potential to significantly challenge current clinical and research practice paradigms pertaining to the provision of end‐of‐life care to terminal cancer patients, with particular relevance to racial and ethnic minorities who are disproportionately more likely to receive aggressive life‐sustaining care.