Incentivizing residents to document inpatient advance care planning

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1652-1654

  Lakin, Joshua R ^a,c   Le, Elizabeth ^b   Mourad, Michelle ^c   Hollander, Harry ^c   Anderson, Wendy G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RESIDENT;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84884693869     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.8158     Document Type: Letter

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