End-of-Life Experience of Older Adults Dying of End-Stage Renal Disease: A Comparison With Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 789-797

  Wachterman, Melissa W ^a,b,c,d   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b,d   Lorenz, Karl A ^e,f,g   Marcantonio, Edward R ^d,h   Li, Zhonghe ⁱ   Keating, Nancy L ^b,d,i  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^f VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

end of life care; End stage renal disease; Health and Retirement Study; symptom burden; treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPENSITY SCORE; TERMINAL CARE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PAIN; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PROPENSITY SCORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85029547757     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.08.013     Document Type: Article

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