Nursing staff on the American Medical Patients should be able Physicians should Numerator: acute care medical Association Statement to trust that their continue to round floor have reported on End-of-Life Care physician will continue daily on dying that they are having to care for them when medicine patients Facility policy on an increasingly dying. If a physician that are waiting to be Management of difficult time must transfer the discharged to Information persuading physicians patient in order to another care setting to round on dying provide quality care, [unless patient does patients waiting to be that physician should not wish to have discharged to another make every reasonable his/her physician care setting—and that effort to continue to round on a daily __________________ patients continue to visit the patient with basis]. Denominator: ask when the doctor regularity, and will be in to visit and institutional systems wonder why the should try to doctor has stopped accommodate this. coming every day. Facility policy states Method: that patients should receive the same care by all treating Sample size: providers, and patients on acute care floors should be seen daily. Time frame for data Exclusion(s): collection: Patient does not wish to have his/her physician round on a daily basis. MODULE 3 MODULE 4 MODULE 2
Nursing staff on the acute care medical floor have reported that they are having an increasingly difficult time persuading physicians to round on dying patients waiting to be discharged to another care setting—and that patients continue to ask when the doctor will be in to visit and wonder why the doctor has stopped coming every day. American Medical Association Statement on End-of-Life Care Facility policy on Management of Information Patients should be able to trust that their physician will continue to care for them when dying. If a physician must transfer the patient in order to provide quality care, that physician should make every reasonable effort to continue to visit the patient with regularity, and institutional systems should try to accommodate this. Facility policy states that patients should receive the same care by all treating providers, and patients on acute care floors should be seen daily. Exclusion(s): Patient does not wish to have his/her physician round on a daily basis. Physicians should continue to round daily on dying medicine patients that are waiting to be discharged to another care setting [unless patient does not wish to have his/her physician round on a daily basis]. Numerator: __________________ Denominator: Method: Sample size: Time frame for data collection: MODULE 2 MODULE 3 MODULE 4