End-of-life care during and after an acute hospitalization in older patients with cancer, end-stage organ failure, or frailty: A sub-analysis of a prospective cohort study

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-82

  Huijberts, Sanne ^a   Buurman, Bianca M ^a   De Rooij, Sophia E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; end of life care; end stage organ failure; health care utilization; hospitalization; palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISABILITY; END STAGE ORGAN FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84949870907     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216315606010     Document Type: Review

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