Treatment of the dying in the acute care hospital: Advanced dementia and metastatic cancer

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2094-2100

  Ahronheim, Judith C ^a   Sean Morrison, R ^a   Baskin, Shari A ^a   Morris, Jane ^a   Meier, Diane E ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYING; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE FEEDING;

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; NEW YORK CITY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; UNCERTAINTY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMENTIA; DRUG THERAPY; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 10244243725     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.18.2094     Document Type: Article

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