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* Our current practice on Medicine at HSC is to use the DC treatment code when treatment is stopped and death is expected imminently.We have recently talked to Trish about how to code our comfort care patients and using the DC treatment box is often the case. If the patients death is not expected imminently we use the code for palliative care.It is confusing because the term palliative can mean many things. [[User:GHall|GHall]] 19:11, 8 May 2008 (CDT) **We are not coding DCtx at the Vic Medicine wards? Are we suppose to?Please let us know.[[User:SKiesman|SKiesman]] 14:51, 23 June 2008 (CDT)

**I believe that we should all be coding the same.I personally talked to Trish about the use of the DC treatment box for patients that death was expected imminently and she agreed that palliative would not be appropriate.So as far as I know you should use the DC treatment box.[[User:GHall|GHall]] 13:17, 4 July 2008 (CDT)

* I removed the "ICU" from the instructions above. The first line used to say "in dying '''ICU''' patients. According to chats with Julie and I think Gail, it's not just ICU patients. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 23:30, 26 May 2008 (CDT)

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 * Our current practice on Medicine at HSC is to use the DC treatment code when treatment is stopped and death is expected imminently.We have recently talked to Trish about how to code our comfort care patients and using the DC treatment box is often the case. If the patients death is not expected imminently we use the code for palliative care.It is confusing because the term palliative can mean many things. [[User:GHall|GHall]] 19:11, 8 May 2008 (CDT)  **We are not coding DCtx at the Vic Medicine wards? Are we suppose to?Please let us know.[[User:SKiesman|SKiesman]] 14:51, 23 June 2008 (CDT)
+**I believe that we should all be coding the same.I personally talked to Trish about the use of the DC treatment box for patients that death was expected imminently and she agreed that palliative would not be appropriate.So as far as I know you should use the DC treatment box.[[User:GHall|GHall]] 13:17, 4 July 2008 (CDT)
 * I removed the "ICU" from the instructions above. The first line used to say "in dying '''ICU''' patients. According to chats with Julie and I think Gail, it's not just ICU patients. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 23:30, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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