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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. It wasn’t just any nurse. Eric: Okay.