Missed opportunities: Use of an end-of-life symptom management order protocol among inpatients dying expected deaths

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-412

  Walling, Anne M ^a,b   Ettner, Susan L ^a,e   Barry, Tod ^c   Yamamoto, Myrtle C ^c   Wenger, Neil S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; END OF LIFE SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT ORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953891503     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0328     Document Type: Article

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