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Nursing home residents with medical order forms more likely to have preferences documented

Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than residents ...
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Benefits of physician orders for scope of treatment (POST) forms on end-of-life care in cancer patients: Insights from the West Virginia registry.

Just what are spiritual needs of cancer patients? An empirical study in a diverse population. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...
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Why the MOST form is one of the MOST important forms for the frail elderly

While most Americans know what a DNR (short for “Do not resuscitate”) is and an increasing percentage of the frail elderly or terminally ill have one on file, a much smaller percentage know what a ...
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Nursing home residents with POLST forms three times more likely to have preferences known

Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than residents ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Managed Care Penetration and Other Factors Affecting Computerized Physician Order Entry in the Ambulatory Setting

Objectives: To estimate the current uses level of ambulatorycomputerized physician order entry (A-CPOE) among physiciansand to examine the relationship of managed care penetration aswell as other ...