Findings from SUPPORT and HELP: An Introduction

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue S1, 2000, Pages S1-S3

  Phillips, Russell S ^a   Hamel, Mary Beth ^a   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^a   Lynn, Joanne ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY LONGITUDINAL PROJECT (HELP); PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; STUDY TO UNDERSTAND PROGNOSES AND PREFERENCES FOR OUTCOMES AND RISKS OF TREATMENTS (SUPPORT);

AGED; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034019275     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb03118.x     Document Type: Review

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