Primary Care Physician and Beneficiary Characteristics Associated With Billing for Advance Care Planning

Advance care planning in primary care.

Barriers to advance care planning in primary care.

to assess whether introducing beta-blockade immediately prior to surgery and continuing it for 30 days reduced the risk of cardiac events in patients at risk of, or with, coronary artery disease, vascular disease, previous stroke, etc. In POISE, about 60% of patients had a history of hypertension, but there are no data on the quality of blood pressure control or the presence or absence of eleva...

Advance care planning discussions with geriatric patients.

BACKGROUND Advance care planning discussions are conversations with patients about future treatment to ensure that the patients' wishes are known if their decision-making capacity fails. Many doctors fear that such conversations represent a strain on patients. We wished to test systematic advance care planning discussions on an acute geriatric ward and to investigate how patients felt about suc...

Advance care planning for people with dementia: benefits and challenges.

Advance care planning (ACP) is a process being championed within health and social care, particularly since the publication of the UK Department of Health's 2008 End of Life Care Strategy. However, its implementation in dementia care is yet to be fully realised and can pose significant ethical and legal dilemmas for the generic and specialist workforce, the patient themselves, and their family ...

Advance care planning for paediatric patients.

Medical and technological advances have increased survival rates and enhanced the quality of life for infants, children and youths with chronic life-threatening conditions. Advance care planning includes the process of discussing life-sustaining treatments and establishing long-term care goals. Paediatric health care practitioners have an ethical obligation to educate themselves about this aspe...