Resident Approaches to Advance Care Planning on the Day of Hospital Admission
Author(s) -
Alexander K. Smith,
Angela Poppe Ries,
Baohui Zhang,
James A. Tulsky,
Holly G. Prigerson,
Susan D. Block
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.15.1597
Subject(s) - advance care planning , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , proxy (statistics) , medicine , directive , health care , discharge planning , family medicine , nursing , medical emergency , emergency medicine , resuscitation , palliative care , computer science , machine learning , economics , programming language , economic growth
Advance care planning is the process of establishing a patient's goals and preferences for future care. Previous research has demonstrated a need to improve patient-physician communication around advance care planning. A critical time for advance care planning conversations is the day of admission to the hospital.
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