Advance care planning (ACP) allows patients to have a voice in the decisions that affect their care after they lose the ability to do so for themselves.
There are several methods addr...
Suggested discussion points:
All adult patients:
Discuss basic medical decision making.
Assess willingness to engage in ACP. Do not force patients if they are not ready to have this potentially...
Current CPT codes are 99497 for the first 30 minutes of discussion and completio...
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Z71.89 Other specified counseling
Z51.5 Encounter for palliative care
Z66 Do not resuscitate
ACP is an important and underutilized element of compassionate and comprehensive patient-centered care.
The primary barriers to discussing advanced directives from the patient perspecti...
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