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Quality, Patient Safety and Clinical Affairs

For Professionals

Advance Directives: Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Protocols for Healthcare Professionals, Patients and Families

The Medical Society of New Jersey through its Biomedical Ethics Committee has collaborated with other stakeholders since 1997 in the development of Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate protocols. NJHA has been involved in shaping these protocols, which would allow patients at home, through their physicians, to choose comfort measures over aggressive resuscitative attempts at the end of life. Up until now, however, the awareness of these protocols has been limited. Recently the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians received a chapter grant from the American College of Emergency Physicians to publish and distribute educational materials regarding Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate protocols. The New Jersey Hospital Association supports the guidelines.

The following materials are made possible by a chapter grant from the American College of Emergency Physicians to the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. These resources were developed by and reprinted with the permission of The Medical Society of New Jersey, New Jersey HealthDecisions and The New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.




For more information:

The New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (NJ-ACEP), Trenton, N.J.

Medical Society of New Jersey, Lawrenceville, N.J. (609)896-1766

New Jersey State Department of Health & Senior Services, Office of Emergency Medical Services, Trenton, N.J. (609) 633-7777

New Jersey Hospital Association, Clinical Affairs Department. Healthcare professionals may call 609-275-4016.

For information in New Jersey nursing home facilities, contact the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly (OOIE), Trenton, N.J. (609) 943-4026.



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