Hospice use following implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation in older patients

Circulation

Volumn 133, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 2030-2037

  Kramer, Daniel B ^a,b,c   Reynolds, Matthew R ^d,e   Normand, Sharon Lise ^c,f   Parzynski, Craig S ^g   Spertus, John A ^h   Mor, Vincent ⁱ   Mitchell, Susan L ^a,c  

^a Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillators, implantable; health services research; heart failure; patient outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYING; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPICE; MORTALITY; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84962118974     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.020677     Document Type: Article

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