A computerized system for entering orders to limit treatment: Implementation and evaluation

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 258-263

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a   Marx, Eric S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031217722     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. S.J. Youngner, "Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: No Longer a Secret But Still a Problem," Hastings Center Report 17 (February 1987): 24-33.
2. D.P. Sulmasy, E.S. Marx, and M. Dwyer, "Do the Ward Notes Reflect the Quality of End of Life Care?" Journal of Medical Ethics 22 (1996): 344-48.
3. D.P. Sulmasy et al., "Long Term Effects of Ethics Education on the Care of Patients With Do Not Resuscitate Orders," Journal of General Internal Medicine 9 (1994): 622-26.
4. E.E. O'Toole et al., "Evaluation of a Treatment Limitation Policy With a Specific Treatment-limiting Order Page," Archives of Internal Medicine 154 (1994): 425-32;
5. J.A. Mittelberger et al., "Impact of a Procedure-Specific Do Not Resuscitate Order Form on Documentation of Do Not Resuscitate Orders," Archives of Internal Medicine 151 (1993): 228-32;
6. J.E. Heffner, C. Barbieri, and K. Casey, "Procedure Specific Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Effect on Communication of Treatment Limitations," Archives of Internal Medicine 156 (1996): 793-97.
7. D.P. Sulmasy et al., "The Quality of Mercy: Caring for Patients with Do Not Resuscitate Orders," Journal of the American Medical Association 267 (1992): 682-86.
8. See note 2 above.
9. See notes 2, 3, and 5 above.
10. See note 2 above.
11. See notes 3 and 5 above.