Systemwide Advance Care Planning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact on Patient Outcomes and Cost

All too often, patients have not documented their end-of-life wishes before facing a medical crisis, leading to unnecessary misery for themselves and stress on their families and caregivers. WellSpan Health found new ways to tackle advance care planning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Patients with se...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Vipul, Geidner, Roberta, Mirchandani, Kamna, Huang, Yue, Warraich, Haider J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Massachusetts Medical Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372989/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/CAT.21.0188
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Geidner, Roberta
Mirchandani, Kamna
Huang, Yue
Warraich, Haider J.
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description All too often, patients have not documented their end-of-life wishes before facing a medical crisis, leading to unnecessary misery for themselves and stress on their families and caregivers. WellSpan Health found new ways to tackle advance care planning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Patients with severe Covid-19 cases who did proactive advance care planning avoided unwanted interventions in their final days.
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spelling pubmed-83729892021-08-23 Systemwide Advance Care Planning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact on Patient Outcomes and Cost Bhatia, Vipul Geidner, Roberta Mirchandani, Kamna Huang, Yue Warraich, Haider J. NEJM Catal Innov Care Deliv In Depth All too often, patients have not documented their end-of-life wishes before facing a medical crisis, leading to unnecessary misery for themselves and stress on their families and caregivers. WellSpan Health found new ways to tackle advance care planning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Patients with severe Covid-19 cases who did proactive advance care planning avoided unwanted interventions in their final days. Massachusetts Medical Society 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8372989/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/CAT.21.0188 Text en Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use, except commercial resale, and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgment of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic or until revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, subject to existing copyright protections.
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