Meeting
Abstract Number: 16
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Advance care planning is nationally recognized as important for honoring patient wishes at the end of life. Despite this widespread recognition, many patients lack advance care planning and spend their last days in ways not concordant with their values. Moreover, traditional advance directives may provide only a partial context for patients’ belief systems relevant […]
Abstract Number: 54
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Code status discussions often link do-not-intubate (DNI) orders with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, although cardiac arrest accounts for less than 2% of endotracheal intubations. DNR orders are more commonly implemented for older patients with more comorbid conditions regardless of the reason for hospitalization, and are associated with withholding treatments outside of the cardiac arrest setting. […]
Abstract Number: 60
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Moral distress, the inability to act in accordance with one’s ethical beliefs due to hierarchical or institutional constraints, has been associated with burnout and poorer well-being. Significant moral distress amongst American physician trainees might occur when they feel obligated to provide treatments at the end of life that they believe to be futile or […]