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*Palliative care is always provided even if [[DC Treatment|disease treatment has been discontinued]] in an ICU patient. Patients' who's treatment has been DC'd, don't need to be also coded as palliative. | *Palliative care is always provided even if [[DC Treatment|disease treatment has been discontinued]] in an ICU patient. Patients' who's treatment has been DC'd, don't need to be also coded as palliative. | ||
****(need to think about this one a bit more, re; Pat Stein question below in discussion[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:00, 29 July 2008 (CDT)) | ****(''need to think about this one a bit more, re; Pat Stein question below in discussion.''[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:00, 29 July 2008 (CDT)) | ||
*For those patient who have come in as "palliative care" and had this status reversed (as in the case of Fran Lindel, HSC Medicine), keep status as palliative. | *For those patient who have come in as "palliative care" and had this status reversed (as in the case of Fran Lindel, HSC Medicine), keep status as palliative. | ||
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**the focus of care is the active treatment of "reversible" conditions for those patients whose underlying disease condition cannot be cured. | **the focus of care is the active treatment of "reversible" conditions for those patients whose underlying disease condition cannot be cured. | ||
**Ok we need to continue work on this definition further. It is a given that emotional, spiritual, treatment of pain etc is part of any type of patient care...........[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 19:09, 21 July 2008 (CDT) | **Ok we need to continue work on this definition further. It is a given that emotional, spiritual, treatment of pain etc is part of any type of patient care...........[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 19:09, 21 July 2008 (CDT) | ||
**My version of defintion is: Palliative care is when a pt is dying of an underlying terminal disease/condition and palliative care/comfort care is documented in chart either by palliative care form/doctor, pt may come in and out of hospital for treatment of symtoms of underlying disease/secondary issues. ACP2 and up is truly not relevant to whether or not a pt is palliative care.--[[User:PStein|PStein]] 08:57, 28 July 2008 (CDT) | |||
**thanks Pat and Joanne for your input here. I have incorporated this in the data collection definition at the top of this page. | |||
*I think we will need to "tweek" a few things.............ugh[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:00, 29 July 2008 (CDT) | |||
*Fran, do you want to expand on your case here as an example. thanks [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:01, 29 July 2008 (CDT) | |||
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