Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST): Outcomes in a PACE program

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1219-1225

  Lee, Melinda A ^a   Brummel Smith, Kenneth ^a   Meyer, Jan ^a   Drew, Nicholas ^b   London, Marla R ^b  

^a Home and Community Services Division   (United States)

^b EARLE A CHILES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Do not resuscitate orders; End of life care; Withdrawing life sustaining treatment; Withholding

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID;

AGED; ARTICLE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; OREGON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033769787     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb02594.x     Document Type: Article

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