Expectations and outcomes in geriatric patients with do-not-resuscitate orders undergoing emergency surgical management of bowel obstruction

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-28

  Speicher, Paul J ^a   Lagoo Deenadayalan, Sandhya A ^a   Galanos, Anthony N ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Scarborough, John E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; AWARENESS; BLEEDING; DATA BASE; EXPECTATION; FAMILY; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARREST; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WOUND INFECTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PROPENSITY SCORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872467987     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.677     Document Type: Article

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