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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

A standardized approach to when certain scarce resources will and will not be offered, in the form of written contraindications to standards of care, would be a big step in the right direction. This approach could rely on data from the best available meta-analyses, disease-specific scoring tools, and expert opinion.

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home.