GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. Now, we would believe this from a primary care perspective.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Emergency rooms.

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