Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes and Reductions in Acute Care Use and Potentially Burdensome End-of-Life Transitions

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2280-2287

  Miller, Susan C ^a   Lima, Julie C ^a   Intrator, Orna ^b,c   Martin, Edward ^d,e   Bull, Janet ^f   Hanson, Laura C ^g,h  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Hope Hospice and Palliative Care   (United States)

^f Four Seasons   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare; nursing homes; palliative care

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RECIPIENT; TERMINAL CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MALE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84990052535     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14469     Document Type: Article

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