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Advance Care Planning
- Concepts in Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directive
- Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR)
- Durable Power of Attorney
- Living Will
- Medical Directive
- Process for advance care planning
- Document patient's values and cultural beliefs
- Determine health care preferences when patient healthy
- Patient selects Durable Power of Attorney
- Ongoing dialog with patient and their family
- Resources
- Lynn: Improving care for the end of life
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Advance Care Planning (C0600371) | |
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| Definition (MSH) | Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions. |
| Concepts | Health Care Activity (T058) |
| MSH | D032722 |
| English | Advance Care Planning, Advance Health Care Planning |
| Parent Concepts | Patient Care Planning (C0030678) |
| Sources | MSH Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
