States worse than death among hospitalized patients with serious illnesses

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1557-1559

  Rubin, Emily B ^a   Buehler, Anna E ^a   Halpern, Scott D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OLIGOPHRENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; URINE INCONTINENCE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILADELPHIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84997428821     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4362     Document Type: Letter

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