08.HCS.PC.2 ( HCS)
The program involves patients and families in decision-making.
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• PC.2 1. Patients receive information about the staff responsible for the delivery of care, treatment, or services.
2. The program assesses how patients want to receive information, including the type and extent of information.
3. The patient’s wishes about how he or she wants to receive information is communicated to practitioners across the care continuum.
4. The program provides patients information about their rights and responsibilities while receiving care, treatment, or services.
5. The program educates patients and families on disease processes, prognosis, and the benefits and burdens of potential interventions so that they are able to make informed decisions about their care.
6. The program involves patients in decisions about their clinical care.
7. Patients and practitioners mutually agree upon goals of care.
8. The program promotes advance care planning.
9. (Not applicable to Core – Palliative Care specific)
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