Examining emergency departments practices on advance care directives and medical treatment decision making using the victorian emergency minimum dataset

Existence of Advance Care Planning (ACP) documents including contact details of Medical Treatment Decision Makers (MTDM), are essential patient care records that support Emergency Department (ED) clinicians in implementing treatment concordant with patients ’ expressed wishes. Based upon previous findings, we conducted a statewide study to evaluate the performance of Victorian public hospital emergency departments on reporting of availability of records for ACP.
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research