Oaklawn Hospital is hosting a series of free Advanced Directive Workshops to help community members plan for future health ...

A Guardian investigation reveals UnitedHealth paid bonuses to nursing homes to reduce costly hospital transfers—allegedly at ...

U.S. health officials have endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s. The test would help identify ...

The issue that troubles me deeply, and which I bring up in the hopes of reform, is the treatment of patients labelled DNR (Do ...

While he was in hospital care, prison staff found ... from this year, a standard form will be used to capture DNR information, which will then be uploaded to the PHMS. Join the Irish Mirror ...

We completed, and I signed, an out-of-hospital DNR form, and I made sure that the Visiting Doctors' phone number was prominently displayed. Mrs. Santos spoke no English, and I hadn't had the good ...

A “do not resuscitate” order can help ... If you change doctors, go to the hospital or move into long-term care, bring your forms. Even if your doctor entered your D.N.R. or POLST into your ...

A woman has described how she has been living in fear since doctors put a 'do not resuscitate' form on her records without her knowledge. June Bennett, a retired senior lecturer in management, was ...

Medics left Pat Dawson to die and failed to attempt CPR after checking the wrong patient's records on which a 'Do Not Resuscitate' form had been entered ... had never been admitted to hospital before ...

Her family alleged CPR was initially stopped as staff wrongly believed she had signed a DNR form. However they said, upon realising the error, resuscitation was restarted. East Lancashire Hospitals ...

"Some staff see DNR as 'do not care', or 'do not seek any medical treatment'." The forms have come to be used "to inform other medical decisions, around eligibility for hospital care, people being ...

Hospital DNR orders (which are orders that are granted while a patient ... Without a living will, proxy, or other form of advance directive, it is often the patient’s spouse or closest biological ...