Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Medical Intervention Orders and In-Hospital Death Rates: Comparable Patterns in Two State Registries

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1739-1741

  Moss, Alvin H ^a   Zive, Dana M ^b   Falkenstine, Evan C ^c   Fromme, Erik K ^d   Tolle, Susan W ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OREGON; PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL STATISTICS; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84982296248     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14273     Document Type: Letter

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