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Description
The goal of this pilot project is to determine the prevalence of pre-operative documentation of ACP among older, high-risk surgical patients with MCC and the patient characteristics associated with ACP documentation.
PI is Victoria Tang, MD, MAS, UCSF; site PI is Ellis Dillon, Ph.D. Co-investigators are Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D., MPH; Rebecca Sudore, M.D., UCSF; Yan Yang, Ph.D., PAMF Research Institute; and John Boscardin, Ph.D., UCSF.
Principal Investigator
External PI, Principal Investigator
Funder
National Institute on Aging (through Health Care Systems Research Network and the Older American Independence Centers AGING Initiative
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