Multiple locations of advance care planning documentation in an electronic health record: Are they easy to find?

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1089-1094

  Wilson, Caroline J ^a   Newman, Jeffrey ^b   Tapper, Sharon ^c   Lai, Steve ^c   Cheng, Peter H ^c   Wu, Frances M ^d   Tai Seale, Ming ^a  

^a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Research Development and Dissemination Sutter Health   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; POWER OF ATTORNEY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; CALIFORNIA; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84884468461     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.0472     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. California HealthCare Foundation: Final Chapter: Californians' Attitudes and Experiences with Death and Dying. Oakland: California HealthCare Foundation, 2012.
2. Pritchard RS, Fisher ES, Teno JM, et al.: Influence of patient preferences and local health system characteristics on the place of death. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Risks and Outcomes of Treatment. J Am Geriatr Soc 1998;46(10):1242-1250.
3. Morrison RS, Olson E, Mertz KR, Meier DE: The inaccessibility of advance directives on transfer from ambulatory to acute care settings. JAMA 1995;274(6):478-482.
4. Meyers JL, Moore C, McGrory A, Sparr J, Ahern M: Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment form: Honoring end-of-life directives for nursing home residents. J Gerontol Nurs 2004;30(9):37-46.
5. Silveira MJ, Kim SY, Langa KM: Advance directives and outcomes of surrogate decision making before death. N Engl J Med 2010;362(13):1211-1218.
6. Meier D, Beresford L: Outpatient clinics are a new frontier for palliative care. J Palliat Med 2008;11:823-828.
7. Cox K, Moghaddam N, Almack K, Pollock K, Seymour J: Is it recorded in the notes? Documentation of end-of-life care and preferred place to die discussions in the final weeks of life. BMC Palliat Care 2011;10(1):18.
8. Lynn J, Goldstein NE: Advance care planning for fatal chronic illness: Avoiding commonplace errors and unwarranted suffering. Ann Intern Med 2003;138(10):812-818.
9. Tulsky JA: Beyond advance directives: Importance of communication skills at the end of life. JAMA 2005;294(3):359-365.
10. Meier DE, Beresford L: POLST offers next stage in honoring patient preferences. J Palliat Med 2009;12(4):291-295.
11. Kraemer HC, Blasey CM: Centring in regression analyses: A strategy to prevent errors in statistical inference. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2004;13(3):141-151.