Advance care planning (ACP) refers to how patients make decisions about care they will receive if they can no longer speak for themselves.
Several methods address uncertainty of goals...
ACP discussions are often complicated by various emotional, cultural, and medical factors. It is important to engage in these conversations with sensitivity about the patient’s frame of refe...
The current CPT codes are 99497 for the first 30 minutes of discu...
Aging with Dignity, Five Wishes: https://www.agingwithdignity.org/
American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. Toolkit for health care advance planning. https://www.america...
Z71.89 Other specified counseling
Z51.5 Encounter for palliative care
Z66 Do not resuscitate
V68.89 Encounters for other specified administrative purpose
V66.7 Encounter for palliative car...
ACP is important and underutilized.
The primary barriers to discussing advanced directives in the primary care setting from the patient perspective include lack of knowledge, fear of bu...
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