GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research. We have both inpatient and outpatient at IU.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. And so people were just doing whatever they wanted, whatever moved them to do. She’s so responsive.” Susan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Because POLST doesn’t, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, you can’t assign a durable power of attorney for healthcare or healthcare proxy.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. Bernie: Laurie, can I interject here?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 24, 2023

This means that even if the situation normally calls for it, healthcare providers will not use any aggressive measures such as chest compressions, defibrillation, or breathing tubes to revive the person. DNR orders can be written or verbal, and they are typically discussed and signed by a patient or their healthcare proxy.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

(also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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