Ethical Challenges at End-of-Life
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OVERVIEW
Ethical Challenges at End-of-Life is organized by Pri-Med and would be held during Sep 15, 2015 - Sep 15, 2018. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
This has created an added responsibility for the physician to anticipate future care needs and to guide treatments as patients become more ill and less functional. Advance care planning is an essential tool in the physician's armamentarium and this skill set must be honed to ensure that patients receive care consistent with their informed preferences and appropriate to their prognosis. In this activity, Dr. Wenger will discuss the components of advance care planning including serial discussion with patients about clinical circumstances and prognosis, incorporating specific tools, coordinating among the team of physicians caring for a patient across venues of care.
Objectives :
• Demostrate how the compression of morbidity and increasing availability of technically-advanced treatments come together to require advance care planning to provide high quality care to complex patients
• Review advance care planning models and structures that improve care toward the end life
• Identify tools to enhance planning for appropriate care toward the end of life including POLST and building better goals of care notes
• Recognize situations in which inappropriate treatment and decision making disagreements are common in order to reduce the likelihood of conflict in end of life care
This has created an added responsibility for the physician to anticipate future care needs and to guide treatments as patients become more ill and less functional. Advance care planning is an essential tool in the physician's armamentarium and this skill set must be honed to ensure that patients receive care consistent with their informed preferences and appropriate to their prognosis. In this activity, Dr. Wenger will discuss the components of advance care planning including serial discussion with patients about clinical circumstances and prognosis, incorporating specific tools, coordinating among the team of physicians caring for a patient across venues of care.
Objectives :
• Demostrate how the compression of morbidity and increasing availability of technically-advanced treatments come together to require advance care planning to provide high quality care to complex patients
• Review advance care planning models and structures that improve care toward the end life
• Identify tools to enhance planning for appropriate care toward the end of life including POLST and building better goals of care notes
• Recognize situations in which inappropriate treatment and decision making disagreements are common in order to reduce the likelihood of conflict in end of life care
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