GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Feeding Document Resuscitation Article 197

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And moreover, about 40% of those patients with POLST had last signed it or filled it out two years prior to that presentation.

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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 268

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 145