Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment among California Nursing Home Residents

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1119-1126

  Jennings, Lee A ^a   Zingmond, David ^a   Louie, Rachel ^a   Tseng, Chi Hong ^a   Thomas, Judy ^b   O’Malley, Kate ^c   Wenger, Neil S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research ^*  (United States)

^c California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

end of life care; long term care; nursing home; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RESIDENT; RESUSCITATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84969136016     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3728-9     Document Type: Article

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