Dr Simon Clay continues his series of articles on navigating the absurdities of QOF coding with advice on how to record smoking status and when it is best not to ask. There have been a number of ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

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