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Hospice Does Not Require a DNR

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It’s more helpful in emergency situations than the living will , because it results in a yellow and red piece of paper with standard formatting. In emergency situations, EMTs won’t take the time to read a living will. Electing full code in hospice: patient characteristics and live discharge rates. 2018 Mar 1;21(3):297-301.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Susan: I will share in Indiana, we actually had that as our legal model, that there was a decision making by committee up until 2018. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? We can work it out! Transcript.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. What are your values? How do we include the people that you care about in these conversations? Juliet: And so what we were measuring now has changed, right?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.