Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic pressurised healthcare with increased shortage of care. This resulted in an increase of awareness for code status documentation (ie, whether limitations to specific ...

Internal medicine resident code status (CS) documentation rates. Run chart of internal medicine resident CS documentation rates through history and physical (H&P) admission notes and direct CS orders ...

Russell E, Hall AK, et al. Code status documentation availability and accuracy among emergency patients with end-stage disease. West J Emerg Med. 2021;22(3):628-35. Dumot JA, Burval DJ, et al. Outcome ...

Background: Patients want physicians to ascertain their wishes related to resuscitation, yet such discussions of “code status” are often delayed in the hospital setting, which compromises patient ...

Every patient admitted to the hospital, scheduled for a procedure or facing a life-limiting illness potentially confronts a decision about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Despite their importance ...

A "cheat sheet" to track residents' code status has become a source of controversy in the case of a Minnesota man who died without being given CPR, according to local news sources.