?s about Medicare payment for advance care planning
September 4, 2015
The Supreme Court case of Cruzan (Nancy Cruzan pictured) vs. Missouri established the right of individuals to make decisions in…
ePOLST: It’s about damn time!
July 7, 2015
By: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD The following is a quote from an Emergency Medicine physician I interviewed for a study about…
Decision aids in serious illness: dissemination strategy, anyone?
May 24, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I was fortunate to be part of a really nice systematic review of decision aids for…
Using video to jumpstart The Conversation: a book review
February 26, 2015
Reviewed: The Conversation, by Angelo Volandes Reviewed by: Alex Smith Using video to help patients with serious illness make decisions…
Advance care planning cold calls, crowdfunding palliative care, and pocket card decision aids
November 3, 2014
Advance Care Planning · Dementia · Ethics · Geriatrics · Hepatitis · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Mental Health
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Every once and a while, a new innovation comes along that makes you go, “Wow!” or,…
Advance care planning tool PREPARE, now in Spanish!
November 2, 2014
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Rebecca Sudore @PrepareForCare Do you have Spanish-speaking patients? If you do, then point them toward…
Nudging residents to document advance directives
July 16, 2013
Picture of this frog has no bearing on the post. I’m not saying residents are frogs in disguise. Seriously. It’s…
CPR Discussions and Harm Reduction
May 26, 2013
By: Bree Johnston One issue that I think we have not examined sufficiently is the impact that repeated discussions about…
Discussing CPR: What Makes It So Different?
May 24, 2013
by: Josh Lakin, MD Palliative Care Fellow, UCSF This week has been full of active discussion around “the code”. As…
What Is A “Natural” Death, Anyway?
May 23, 2013
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Eric kicked off the week posting about a study comparing use of the phrase “Allow Natural…