End-of-life care is a vastly complex topic. One particularly unsettling aspect is the “code status” discussion, in which patients decide whether or not to have invasive measures performed if ...

Background: Patients want physicians to ascertain their wishes related to resuscitation, yet such discussions of “code status” are often delayed in the hospital setting, which compromises patient ...

When working at the emergency department, residents usually sign up for acuity levels 1-3, unless level 4 or 5 is a pediatric patient. I would choose any level for the kids. On that day, I chose a ...

Although most people want their physicians to discuss resuscitation or "code status" with them, these discussions are often fraught with difficulty and delay in the hospital setting. Dr. Betty ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Goals-of-care discussions often occur too late for patients with poor-prognosis, high-risk acute myeloid ...

Should a patient be readmitted, his or her CS will be reset, and the BPA reinitiates regardless of previous CS documentation, which ensures that CS discussions are held ... Internal medicine resident ...

Care of the caregiver: Improving caregiver outcomes across the disease trajectory. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This abstract ...

We present the case of a person whose presumed code-status preference led him to tattoo “Do Not Resuscitate” on his chest. Paramedics brought an unconscious 70-year-old man with a history of ...