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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2021-05-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vv609cp |