Hospitalisation, care plans and not for resuscitation orders in older people in the last year of life

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-449

  Chan, Daniel Kam Yin ^a   Ong, Bin ^b   Zhang, Kai ^a   Li, Roger ^b   Liu, Jun Guang ^b   Iedema, Rick ^a   Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BANKSTOWN LIDCOMBE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Care plans; Last year of life; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0041672476     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/32.4.445     Document Type: Article

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