Hospice, opiates, and acute care service use among the elderly before death from heart failure or cancer

American Heart Journal

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Setoguchi, Soko ^a   Glynn, Robert J ^a   Stedman, Margaret ^a   Flavell, Carol M ^a   Levin, Raisa ^a   Stevenson, Lynne Warner ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955672320     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.03.038     Document Type: Article

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