Adjustment for do-not-resuscitate orders reverses the apparent in-hospital mortality advantage for minorities

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 400-408

  Bardach, Naomi ^a   Zhao, Shoujun ^a   Pantilat, Steven ^a   Johnston, S Claiborne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity; Do not resuscitate; Ethnicity; Health care outcomes; Mortality; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16244364019     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.008     Document Type: Article

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