Analyses of nursing home residents in hospice care using the minimum data set

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 465-480

  Buchanan, Robert J ^a   Choi, Maryann ^b   Wang, Suojin ^a   Huang, Chunfeng ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospice; Minimum data set; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG USE; DYING; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PSYCHOSIS; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN DISEASES; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0036436995     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm589oa     Document Type: Article

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