Association between immigrant status and end-of-life care in Ontario, Canada

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 1479-1488

  Yarnell, Christopher J ^a   Fu, Longdi ^b   Manuel, Doug ^b,c   Tanuseputro, Peter ^d   Stukel, Therese ^b,e   Pinto, Ruxandra ^f   Scales, Damon C ^a,b,f   Laupacis, Andreas ^a,b,f,g   Fowler, Robert A ^a,b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PERCUTANEOUS FEEDING TUBE PLACEMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; TERMINAL CARE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; WESTERN EUROPE; ADULT; ASIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; ONTARIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIALYSIS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 85031719275     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.14418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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