Nursing Home Residents Dying With Dementia in Flanders, Belgium: ANationwide Postmortem Study on Clinical Characteristics and Quality of Dying

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 485-492

  Vandervoort, An ^a   Van den Block, Lieve ^a   van der Steen, Jenny T ^b   Volicer, Ladislav ^c   Stichele, Robert Vander ^a,d   Houttekier, Dirk ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dementia; End of life care; Nursing homes; Quality of dying

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BELGIUM; CACHEXIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DYING; DYSPHAGIA; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL EVENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84879603501     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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