Regional and institutional variation in the initiation of early do-not-resuscitate orders

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1705-1712

  Zingmond, David S ^a   Wenger, Neil S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL DISEASE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 23744436840     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.15.1705     Document Type: Article

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