Predicting Life Span for Applicants to: Inpatient Hospice

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 2540-2543

  Forster, Lorna Earl ^a   Lynn, Joanne ^a,b  

^a Washington Home Division of Geriatric Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPICE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EVALUATION; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; MEDICARE; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT; SOCIAL WORKERS; SURVEY; THE WASHINGTON HOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPICES; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; METHODS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024230455     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380120010003     Document Type: Article

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