A comparison of methods to communicate treatment preferences in nursing facilities: Traditional practices versus the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1241-1248

  Hickman, Susan E ^a,b   Nelson, Christine A ^b   Perrin, Nancy A ^d   Moss, Alvin H ^e   Hammes, Bernard J ^f   Tolle, Susan W ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

do not hospitalize; do not resuscitate; end of life; ethics; nursing facility

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAIN; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES;

EID: 77954336600     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02955.x     Document Type: Article

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