Differences in End-of-Life Preferences between Congestive Heart Failure and Dementia in a Medical House Calls Program

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 736-740

  Haydar, Ziad R ^a,c   Lowe, Alice J ^a   Kahveci, Kellie L ^a   Weatherford, Wilson ^a   Finucane, Thomas ^b  

^a BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baylor Geriatrics Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Congestive heart failure; Dementia; Hospice; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPICES; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 2342472518     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52210.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Field MJ, Cassel CK, eds. Approaching Death. Improving Care at the End of Life. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 1997.
2. Meier DE, Morrison RS, Cassel CK. Improving palliative care. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:225-230.
3. Hogan C, Lunney J, Gabel J et al. 'Medicare beneficiaries' costs of care in the last year of life. Health Aff 2001;20:188-195.
4. The Support Principal Investigators. A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT). JAMA 1995;274:1591-1598.
5. Lynn J, Teno J, Phyillips RS et al. Perceptions by family members of the dying experience of older and seriously ill patients. Ann Intern Med 1997;126:97-106.
6. Fried TR, Pollack DM, Drickamer MA et al. Who dies at home? Determinants of site of death for community-based long-term care patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 1999;47:25-29.
7. Finucane TE. How gravely ill becomes dying: A key to end-of-life care. JAMA 1999;282:1670-1672.
8. Fox E, Landrum-Mcniff K, Zhong Z et al. Evaluation of prognostic criteria for determining hospice eligibility in patients with advanced lung, heart, or liver disease. JAMA 1999;282:1638-1645.
9. Leff B, Kaffenbarger KP, Remsburg R. Prevalence, effectiveness, and predictors of planning the place of death among older persons followed in community-based long-term care. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000;48:943-948.
10. Deconno F, Caraceni A, Groff L et al. Effect of home care on the place of death of advanced cancer patients. Eur J Cancer 1996;32A:1142-1147.
11. Moinpour CM, Polissar L. Factors affecting place of death of hospice and non-hospice cancer patients. Am J Public Health 1989;79:1549-1551.
12. Townsend J, Frank OA, Fermont D et al. Terminal cancer care and patients' preference for place of death: A prospective study. BMJ 1990;301:415-417.
13. Higginson IJ, Astin P, Dolan S. Where do cancer patients die? Ten year trends in the place of death of cancer patients in England. Palliat Med 1998;12:353-363.
14. Lee A, Pang WS. Preferred place of death: A local study of cancer patients and their relatives. Singapore Med J 1998;39:447-450.
15. Mcwhinney IR, Bass MJ, Orr V. Factors associated with location of death (home or hospital) of patients referred to a palliative care team. Can Med Assoc J 1995;152:361-367.
16. Mor V, Hiris J. Determinants of site of death among hospice cancer patients. J Health Soc Behav 1983;24:375-385.
17. Mann WJ, Loesch M, Shurpin KM et al. Determinants of home versus hospital terminal care for patients with gynecologic cancer. Cancer 1993;71:2876-2879.
18. Groth-Junker A, Mccusker J. Where do elderly patients prefer to die? Place of death among 100 elderly patients under the care of a home health care team. J Am Geriatr Soc 1983;31:457-461.
19. Katz S, Ford AB, Moskowitz RW et al. Studies of illness in the aged. The index of ADL. A standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function. JAMA 1963;185:914-919.
20. Gillenbaum GG. Screening the elderly: A brief instrumental activities of daily living measure. J Am Geriatr Soc 1985;33:698-706.
21. Hughes CP, Berg L, Danziger WL et al. A new clinical scale for the staging of dementia. Br J Psychiatry 1982;140:566-572.
22. Crawly L, Payne R, Bolden J et t al. Palliative and end-of-life care in the African-American community. JAMA 2000;248:2518-2521.
23. Patrick DL, Starks HE, Cain KC et al. Measuring preferences for health states worse than death. Med Decis Making 1994;14:9-18.
24. Lynn J, Harrell F Jr, Cohn F et al. Prognoses of seriously ill hospitalized patients on the days before death: Implications for patient care and public policy. New Horiz 1997;5:56-61.