Discrepant advanced directives and code status orders: a preventable medical error.

Barry Meisenberg; Sohail Zaidi; Lori Franks; David Moller; David Mooradian

Journal Article

Discrepant advanced directives and code status orders: a preventable medical error.

October 2, 2019

Meisenberg B, Zaidi S, Franks L, et al. J Hosp Med. 2019;14(10):716-718.

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Advanced Directives (AD) and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Therapy (POLST) are intended to improve end-of-life care by ensuring that patient's wishes are honored by health care providers. This perspective presents two cases in which preventable errors allowed for the use of unwanted life-sustaining therapies. Root cause analyses for these cases found that haste, inadequate communication, EMR discrepancies, knowledge deficits contributed to these errors.

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