Sunday, October 12, 2014

When your patient done DID.

The McKesson disposition for "Dead in the Department" (as opposed to DOA, which is Dead on Arrival) always made me chuckle a little bit, because it would mark the dispo column "DID".  Patient did what?  "He done did die!"  I've always wanted to say.  Please take a few minutes to take this ENA survey about end-of-life-care in the Emergency Department.  Definitely something we don't spend much time discussing but face a lot of time dealing with.  And we can and must do better.

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