Rural-urban differences in medical care for nursing home residents with severe dementia at the end of life

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1199-1205

  Gessert, Charles E ^a   Haller, Irina V ^a   Kane, Robert L ^b   Degenholtz, Howard ^c  

^a SMDC Health System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Rural health; Urban health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; STROKE; TERMINAL CARE; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MINNESOTA; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746740453     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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