Prevalence and related factors of do-not-resuscitate directives among nursing home residents in Taiwan

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 436-442

  Lo, Yu Tai ^a   Wang, Jing Jy ^b   Liu, Li Fan ^b   Wang, Chun Nien ^c  

^a St Joseph Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Jianan Mental Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Do not resuscitate directives; Family surrogates; Nursing home residents; Policy; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RESUSCITATION; TAIWAN; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY; LIVING WILL; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954618547     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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