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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. This study reviewed data on almost a billion (854,911,106) ED visits, of which 4.2% were made by patients with cancer.

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In the Nick of Time: Advance Care Planning in the ICU

AJN Off the Charts

I made a copy of it and gave it to the ICU social worker to scan for the patient’s electronic chart. Marian Grant, palliative care NP. I also work as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center where I see the real-life aspects of advance care planning. I first saw the patient the next morning.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. I remember there was an Archives article from, or Annals, I forget, it was probably called Archives back then, Resuscitating Advanced Directives. Bernie: So let me flip it around.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. Brad: I completely forgot about that. That’s great. Alex: That was great. We were co-fellows about 100 years ago. Juliet: It was great.

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