Code Status Documentation Availability and Accuracy Among Emergency Patients with End-stage Disease

Introduction: Some patients with end-stage disease who may neither want nor benefit from aggressive resuscitation receive such treatment if they cannot communicate in an emergency. Timely access to patients’ current resuscitation wishes, or “code status,” should be a key metric of electronic health...

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Main Authors: Evan Russell, Andrew K. Hall, Conor McKaigney, Craig Goldie, Ingrid Harle, Marco L.A. Sivilotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2021-05-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vv609cp