Symptoms, signs, problems, and diseases of terminally ill nursing home patients: A nationwide observational study in the Netherlands

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 314-320

  Brandt, Hella E ^a,c   Deliens, Luc ^a,b   Ooms, Marcel E ^a   Van Der Steen, Jenny T ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CACHEXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; OBSERVATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 13444303848     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.3.314     Document Type: Article

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