Partial codes when "less" may not be "more." | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Partial codes when "less" may not be "more." | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published June 2016

Partial codes—when "less" may not be "more."

Rousseau P. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Jun 13; [Epub ahead of print].

The complexity around end-of-life care increases risks of communication errors. Discussing an incident involving a patient who selected partial code strategy, this commentary explores how, after enacting this plan, the clinicians questioned whether the patient had understood theresuscitation preference he chose. The author raises ethical concerns related to advance directives when patients survive who then become dependent on life-support measures.

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