Stability of preferences regarding life-sustaining treatment: A two-year prospective study of nursing home residents

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-92

  McParland, Elaine ^a   Likourezos, Antonios ^b   Chichin, Eileen ^b   Castor, Tita ^b   Paris, Barbara E C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Jewish Home and Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Life sustaining treatment; Stability of decisions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; RESUSCITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 0037340224     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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