Death, Taxes and Advance Directives

Summary Suboptimal care at the end-of-life can be due to lack of access or knowledge of patient wishes. Ambiguity is often the result of non-standardized formats. Borrowing digital technology from other industries and using existing health information infrastructure can greatly improve the completio...

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Published in:Applied clinical informatics 2014-01, Vol.5 (2), p.589-593
Main Authors: Wood, N.M., D‘Amore, J.D., Jones, S.L., Sittig, D.F., Ness, R.B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advance Care Planning - economics
Advance Care Planning - legislation & jurisprudence
Advance Directives
Death
Decision Making
Humans
Invited Editorial
Taxes
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Summary:Summary Suboptimal care at the end-of-life can be due to lack of access or knowledge of patient wishes. Ambiguity is often the result of non-standardized formats. Borrowing digital technology from other industries and using existing health information infrastructure can greatly improve the completion, storage, and distribution of advance directives. We believe several simple, low-cost adaptations to regional and federal programs can raise the standard of end-of-life care. Citation: Wood NM, D’Amore JD, Jones SL, Sittig DF, Ness RB. Death, taxes and advance directives. Appl Clin Inf 2014; 5: 589–593 http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2013-12-IE-0099
ISSN:1869-0327
1869-0327
DOI:10.4338/ACI-2013-12-IE-0099