Influence of hospice on nursing home residents with advanced dementia who received medicare-skilled nursing facility care near the end of life

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2035-2041

  Miller, Susan C ^a,b   Lima, Julie C ^b   Mitchell, Susan L ^c,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Deaconess Medical Center   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced dementia; hospice; Medicare; nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYSPNEA; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869114276     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04204.x     Document Type: Article

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