Changes over Time in the Use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders and the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Them

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-319

  Wenger, Neil S ^a   Pearson, Marjorie L ^b   Desmond, Katherine A ^c   Kahn, Katherine L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Outcomes; Resuscitation orders; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031115951     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199704000-00003     Document Type: Article

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