CMS is allowing reimbursement for healthcare providers who have stand-alone discussions with patients about their health care options near the end of life, including life-sustaining treatment. Lack of reimbursement has likely represented one barrier to these important discussions. Another obstacle has been lack of knowledge on the right way to guide patients as they approach the end of their lives and need to make decisions about the type of care they want or need. There are several ethical issues that arise in this decision making process that can be difficult to resolve. As a result, some physicians as well as their patients simply choose to avoid the topic altogether or give it short shrift. Fortunately, guidelines such as set forth by the Hastings Center which are discussed in this activity, help address these issues and promote effective and productive dialogue at a time when some argue it is most needed.
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Specialties served/covered
- Adolescent Medicine
- Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
- Allergy & Clinical Immunology
- Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
- Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Cardiac Anesthesia
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Critical Care Medicine
- Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Foot & Ankle Surgery
- Gastroenterology
- General Internal Medicine
- General Operative Anesthesia
- General Otolaryngology
- General Pediatrics
- General Surgery
- Geriatric Medicine
- Head & Neck Surgery
- Hematology
- Hospice & Palliative Medicine
- Hospital Medicine
- Interventional Cardiology
- Laryngology
- Medical Microbiology
- Medical Oncology
- Medical Toxicology
- Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
- Musculoskeletal Oncology
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neuro Anesthesia
- Neurocritical Care
- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
- Neurological & Spinal Cord Injury Rehab
- Neuromuscular Medicine
- Obstetric Anesthesia
- Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Orthopaedic Trauma
- Otology & Neurotology
- Pain Medicine
- Pediatric Anesthesia
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Neurology
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Pediatric Otolaryngology
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Practice Management & Ethics
- Primary Care Sports Medicine
- Pulmonary Disease
- Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain
- Rheumatology
- Rhinology
- Shoulder & Elbow Surgery
- Sleep Medicine
- Spine Surgery
- Surgery of the Hand & Upper Extremity
- Surgical Critical Care
- Surgical Oncology
- Thoracic Anesthesia
- Thoracic Surgery
- Transplant Hepatology
- Transplant Surgery
- Trauma Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular Neurology
- Vascular Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Cardio-Vascular
- Cross-Specialty
- Emergency & Critical Care
- ENT & Head Neck
- GI & Liver
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Subspecialties
- Neurology
- Oncology & Hematology
- Orthopedics
- Pain & Palliative
- Pathology & Lab
- Pediatrics
- Primary care
- Rehabilitation
- Sports & Exercise Medicine
- Surgery
- Urology
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- Credit · Up to 1 credit
- MOC · Up to 1 point
- Paid · fee on provider site
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ReleasedNov 5, 2024
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Last day to claim creditNov 5, 2027 1 year left
