Publications by authors named "Nicole S Dettmar"
Background And Objectives: Patient identifiers are used in the opening lines of case presentations and written documentation in health care and medical education settings. These identifiers can reflect physicians' implicit biases, which are known to impact patient care. Yet, no clear recommendations for the use of patient identifiers to reduce bias and stigma in patient care and medical education learning environments currently exist.
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- Despite increased access to advance care planning (ACP), palliative care, and hospice, public attitudes still pose challenges to their effective use, requiring better public messaging.
- A review of 12 studies, with over 9,800 participants, showed that while awareness of ACP is high (80-90%), actual engagement is low (10-41% have named a proxy or completed documentation).
- For palliative care, 66-71% of participants were unaware of it, but 95% reacted favorably when given a clear definition, while hospice awareness was high at 86%, but misconceptions remained in 37% of respondents.