Eric Widera, MD
@ewidera.bsky.social
Professor of #Medicine @UCSF focused on #Geriatrics, #Hospice, #Palliative care, and #meded. Co-creator of https://eprognosis.ucsf.edu. Podcasts at http://geripal.org 🇺🇦
Publications: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.widera
Publications: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.widera
We do use a lot of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders in the US but when family members want their dying loved ones to be full code (do attempt resuscitation) it creates a lot of moral distress. The slow code is the result of this distress and happens more commonly than I initially thought
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We do use a lot of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders in the US but when family members want their dying loved ones to be full code (do attempt resuscitation) it creates a lot of moral distress. The slow code is the result of this distress and happens more commonly than I initially thought
Reposted by Eric Widera, MD
Medicare Advantage plans could be gumming up the entire pipeline from ED visit to hospital discharge through this process. We are already seeing the prolonged ED stays are much more common, which could result from hospital beds being locked up.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Hospital ‘Boarding’ Of Patients In The Emergency Department Increasingly Common, 2017–24 | Health Affairs Journal
When hospital beds are scarce, patients “board” in the emergency department until an inpatient bed becomes available. Using national data on 46.2 million hospitalizations, 2017–24, we documented rising burdens of hospital boarding in the US. At the peak in January 2022, 40.1 percent of patients boarded for more than four hours, and 6.3 percent boarded for more than twenty-four hours.
www.healthaffairs.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Medicare Advantage plans could be gumming up the entire pipeline from ED visit to hospital discharge through this process. We are already seeing the prolonged ED stays are much more common, which could result from hospital beds being locked up.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....