POST Forms More Than Advance Directives Associated with Out-of-Hospital Death: Insights from a State Registry

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 240-246

  Pedraza, Sandra L ^a   Culp, Stacey ^b   Falkenstine, Evan C ^c   Moss, Alvin H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c West Virginia Center for End of Life Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; advance directives; electronic registry; end of life; POLST; site of death

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMFORT; DEATH; DISEASE MODEL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; UNITED STATES; AGE; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPICE CARE; HOUSING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; WEST VIRGINIA;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; HOSPICE CARE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84955603301     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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