Is the End in Sight for the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Approach to Advance Care Planning?

Affiliations

¹ Island Health, Nanaimo Regional Hospital, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; and.
² Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Editorial

Rachel C Carson et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 7;12(3):380-381.

doi: 10.2215/CJN.00980117. Epub 2017 Feb 23.

¹ Island Health, Nanaimo Regional Hospital, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; and.
² Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: advance care planning; advance directives; electronic health records; kidney failure, chronic; palliative medicine; renal dialysis.

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