DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6428 ISSN: 2168-6106
Consequences of a Health System Not Knowing Which Patients Are Deceased
Neil S. Wenger, Fernando Javier Sanz Vidorreta, Michael T. Dudley, Anne M. Walling, Michael Hogarth- Internal Medicine
This quality improvement study in a California health system investigates the proportion of active patients who were deceased but not noted as such in the electronic health record (EHR), as well as encounters after death.