Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute Care Settings.

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Clinical momentum is charged by ritually intensifying efforts to “save” a patient, reimbursement patterns that privilege acute interventions, and technology-driven health care: https://t.co/2js2UxJisX

Clinical momentum can lead to extensions of care that can violate patient wishes and distress clinicians. How can clinicians stop this often unconsidered phenomenon? https://t.co/YFD2572mR6

I get it, yet I don’t. Maybe some are so “stuck” in clinical pathway they lose their clinical judgement. Mostly I think it is because clinicians no longer spend time getting to know their patients—not once, but every step of their serious illness way.

@jaimevalentine Sounds interesting! As you research, you might be interested in our Aug 2018 issue: Roles of Physicians in Healthy Dying (https://t.co/tjW8ex7qhv). Esp. the article "Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute…

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