Palliative care needs of seriously ill, older adults presenting to the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1253-1257

  Grudzen, Corita R ^a,b   Richardson, Lynne D ^a   Morrison, Matthew ^a   Cho, Elizabeth ^a   Sean Morrison, R ^b,c  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MCGILL QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUAL CARE; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78349300608     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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