Submitted by Heather Harris on January 31, 2014 - 2:01pm
Last revised by Web Producer on March 13, 2014 - 12:43pm.
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Can apply to both UCSF Medical Center and SFGH. SFGH is hampered to a greater degree given the lack of an integrated EMR system. Efforts should be taken to standardize the location of advance care planning documenation in the EMR. Often a great deal of time may be taken by providers to obtain ACP documentation, but then there is no standard place or processes around documenting such materials. Or if there is a place, processes and practice are not standardized to ensure that information is recorded in a reliable fashion and location. This leads to inaccessibility of important information at critical points of care across the care continuum (Ex. ED, after a hospitalization back in the PMD office, ICU, etc...)
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