Restricting symptoms in the last year of life: A prospective cohort study

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1534-1540

  Chaudhry, Sarwat I ^a   Murphy, Terrence E ^a   Gahbauer, Evelyne ^a   Sussman, L Scott ^b   Allore, Heather G ^a   Gill, Thomas M ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; TIME OF DEATH; UNSTEADINESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTICUT; DEMENTIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84883779111     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.8732     Document Type: Article

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