Causes of Death in Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 565-567

  Goldberg, Todd H ^a   Botero, Andres ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Causes of death; end of life; hospice; nursing home

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVING WILL; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52749094410     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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