HCC stands for hepatocellular carcinomaIn EPIC, a lot of diagnoses in the problem list are labeled with (HCC) after their name, like "Acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HCC)". I have no idea what it means, but this is probably where OP got it from, and the pt probably doesn't have hepatocellular carcinoma.Edit: Just looked at OP's screenshot and you can see what I was talking about.Yes. Probably means the word salad pointed out by the other poster just before you. Never heard in a clinical context. Reason #649263 that epic sucks.
Very well said.I want add that if you look at the data for people who go to LTAC and are successfully liberated from the ventilator, and are alive and independent at 1 year... It's somewhere between 5-10 percent. It's a long road to get there, even without metastatic cancer.Something I'd like to add about the quality of life comment that I think is important to share with family members... Everyone has a quality of life minimum that they would accept. It's our jobs to tell the people we love what that minimum is while we are alive and healthy so that our love ones know what our wishes are. If (when) something happens to us, it's up to our love ones to state the decision we've previously made. There's always going to be emotions during this tough time, but guilt or regret should not be one of them.In Healthcare we commonly refer to the surrogate or next of kin as the "decision maker", but really the decision maker is always the patient. The surrogate is the party that speaks for the patient when they are unable to and brings the patients desires to light.