Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Worcester Heart Attack Study

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 776-783

  Jackson, Elizabeth A ^a   Yarzebski, Jorge L ^a   Goldberg, Robert J ^a,b   Wheeler, Brownell ^a   Gurwitz, Jerry H ^b   Lessard, Darleen M ^a   Bedell, Susanna E ^c   Gore, Joel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STROKE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESUSCITATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 1842782288     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.7.776     Document Type: Article

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