Use of Palliative care and hospice among surgical and medical specialties in the veterans health administration

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1169-1175

  Olmsted, Courtney L ^a,b,c   Johnson, Amy M ^a   Kaboli, Peter ^a,b   Cullen, Joseph ^a,b   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a,b  

^a Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METASTASIS; NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; VETERANS HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MEDICINE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VETERAN;

COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MEDICINE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84911457470     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.2101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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