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NOTE: We have now clarified further that Palliative Care Service does not mean the same thing as palliation, comfort care or ACP C. It is the actual Service involvement in care. | NOTE: We have now clarified further that Palliative Care Service does not mean the same thing as palliation, comfort care or ACP C. It is the actual Service involvement in care. | ||
***This change in the use of the palliative diagnostic code is all the more reason that we need a code for ACP-C or comfort care. We will code palliative only for consults to the service, but for all the pts that are ACP-C (that don't have a palliative consult) we will not have that information. I would think that when a patient dies it would be good to know if they had been made ACP-C prior to this or if it was an unexpected event. I would be surprised if the managers, doctors and others that use our data for statistics would not want this. Just want to make sure before we totally ignore this important information on the charts. I personally think that instead of a tmp file change, just making an ACP-C diagnostic code would solve this problem and Dan would have what he wants also. Any admission with an ACP-C would qualify for Dan's project needs. Any complication with ACP-C would be used for knowing that the pt focus was changed to comfort care after admission. | |||