Advance care planning norms may contribute to hospital variation in end-of-life ICU use: A simulation study

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 473-484

  Barnato, Amber E ^a,b   Mohan, Deepika ^a   Lane, Rondall K ^c   Huang, Yue Ming ^d   Angus, Derek C ^a,d   Farris, Coreen ^e   Arnold, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; heuristics; intensive care; Medicare; national health policy; palliative care; physician decision making; qualitative research; simulation; terminal care; variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; TERMINAL CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84899538418     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X14522099     Document Type: Article

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