Description
Advance directives contain important information about patient wishes. We analyzed 100 electronic patient charts with a total of 192 advance directives scanned documents (151 unique documents and 41 duplicates). We found varied formats (109 institutional forms and 42 outside documents from varied sources), and some quality issues (8 incomplete documents, 4 scans containing multiple documents, 67 date abstraction errors). There are many opportunities to improve management of advance directive data.
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of advance directives and challenges to managing advance directives in clinical systems.
Authors:
Chelsea Michael (Presenter)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Anjali Desai, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gilad Kuperman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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