Fast Facts—Category: Ethics, Law, Policy, Health Systems

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  1. Fast Fact and Concept #004; Death Pronouncement
  2. Fast Fact and Concept #008; Morphine and Hastened Death
  3. Fast Fact and Concept #12; EIGHT MYTHS ABOUT ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
  4. Fast Fact and Concept #44; Changing the Status Quo
  5. Fast Fact and Concept #48; CODING AND BILLING FOR PHYSICIAN SERVICES IN PALLIATIVE CARE
  6. Fast Fact and Concept #055; DECISION MAKING CAPACITY
  7. Fast Fact and Concept #56; WHAT TO DO WHEN THE PATIENT REFUSES TREATMENT Decision Making Capacity
  8. Fast Fact and Concept #63; The legal liability of undertreatment of pain
  9. Fast Fact and Concept #79; CULTURAL ASPECTS OF PAIN MANAGEMENT
  10. Fast Fact and Concept #82; MEDICARE HOSPICE BENEFIT: PART I ELIGIBILITY AND TREATMENT PLAN
  11. Fast Fact and Concept #87; MEDICARE HOSPICE BENEFIT PART II: PLACES OF CARE AND FUNDING
  12. Fast Fact and Concept #90; MEDICARE HOSPICE PART III: SPECIAL INTERVENTION
  13. Fast Fact and Concept #106; Controlled Sedation for Refractory Suffering - Part I
  14. Fast Fact and Concept #111; CARDIAC PACEMAKERS AT THE END OF LIFE
  15. Fast Fact and Concept #112, Implantable Cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) at End of Life
  16. Fast Fact and Concept #115; DECLARING BRAIN DEATH: THE NEUROLOGICAL CRITERIA
  17. Fast Fact and Concept #133; NON-ORAL HYDRATION IN PALLIATIVE CARE
  18. Fast Fact and Concept #136: Medical Futility
  19. Fast Fact and Concept #139; Hospice Referral - Moving from Hospital to Home
  20. Fast Fact and Concept #140;Medicare Hospice Benefit: Levels of Hospice Care
  21. Fast Fact and Concept #153;Health Literacy in Palliative Medicine
  22. Fast Fact and Concept #155;Completing a Death Certificate
  23. Fast Fact and Concept #156; Evaluating Requests for Hastened Death
  24. Fast Fact and Concept #159; Responding to a Request for Hastening Death
  25. Fast Fact and Concept #162; Advance Care Planning in Chronic Illness
  26. FAST FACT AND CONCEPT #164: Informed Consent in Palliative Care; Part I
  27. Fast Fact and Concept #165; Informed Consent in Palliative Care Part II
  28. Fast Fact and Concept #172; Professional-Patient Boundaries in Palliative Care
  29. Fast Fact and Concept #178: The National POLST Paradigm Initiative
  30. Fast Fact and Concept #194: Disclosing Medical Error
  31. Fast Fact and Concept #195: Responding to a Colleague’s Error
  32. Fast Fact and Concept #198: Regulatory Issues for Prescribing Schedule II Opioids at the End of Life