Do-not-resuscitate and do-not-hospitalize directives of persons admitted to skilled nursing facilities under the medicare benefit

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2060-2068

  Levy, Cari R ^a   Fish, Ronald ^a   Kramer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Do not hospitalize; Do not resuscitate; Geographic variation; Nursing home; Skilled nursing facility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29344457626     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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