Patterns of Functional Decline at the End of Life

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2387-2392

  Lunney, June R ^a   Lynn, Joanne ^b   Foley, Daniel J ^a   Lipson, Steven ^c   Guralnik, Jack M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b WA Home Ctr Palliative Care Studs   (United States)

^c Hebrew Home of Greater Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYING; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRAILTY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENDER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRAIL ELDERLY; INTERVIEW; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASMS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0038316599     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.18.2387     Document Type: Article

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