Preferences and actual treatment of older adults at the end of life. A mortality follow-back study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1722-1729

  Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Kaspers, Pam J ^a   Deeg, Dorly J H ^b   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a  

^a Palliative Care Center of Expertise   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

advance care planning; advance directive; end of life care; forgoing treatment; individual preferences

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RELATIVE; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVE; END-OF-LIFE CARE; FORGOING TREATMENT; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROXY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84885635500     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12450     Document Type: Article

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