Dr Simon Clay continues his series of articles on navigating the absurdities of QOF coding with advice on how to record smoking status and when it is best not to ask. There have been a number of ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

A “cheat sheet” to track residents’ code status has become a source of controversy in the case of a Minnesota man who died without being given CPR, according to local news sources. The resident — ...

Clinical specialist radiation therapists (CSRT): Creating capacity while improving quality of care. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Documentation of a patient's preferred code status is a critical outcome of advance care planning. Although there is agreement that code status is valuable information, little progress has been made ...