- ►harvard.edu [PDF] KE Steinhauser, NA Christakis, EC Clipp, M McNeilly, L … - Jama, 2000 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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your experience on this site better. ... Context A clear understanding of what patients, ... Cited by 748 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►healthaffairs.org C Hogan, J Lunney, J Gabel, J Lynn - Health Affairs, 2001 - Health Affairs This paper profiles Medicare beneficiaries' costs for care in the last year of life. About one-quarter
of Medicare outlays are for the last year of life, unchanged from twenty years ago. Costs reflect
care for multiple severe illnesses typically present near death. Thirty-eight percent of ... Cited by 261 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
S Weitzen, JM Teno, M Fennell, V Mor - Medical care, 2003 - jstor.org OBJECTIVES. Recent public attention has fo- cused on quality of care for the dying. Where one
dies is an important individual and public health concern. MATERIALS AND METHODS. The
1993 National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS) was used to estimate the proportion ... Cited by 98 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
M Gott, J Seymour, G Bellamy, D Clark, S … - Palliative Medicine, 2004 - pmj.sagepub.com DOI: 10.1191/0269216304pm889oa 2004; 18; 460 Palliat Med Merryn Gott, Jane Seymour, Gary
Bellamy, David Clark and Sam Ahmedzai Older people's views about home as a place of care
at the end of life ... Merryn Gott Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, University of ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
ST Tang - Cancer nursing, 2003 - journals.lww.com From the National Yang-Ming University, School of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of
China. ... This research was funded by the ONS Foundation through an unrestricted grant from
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- ►psu.edu [PDF] DE Weissman - JAMA, 2004 - Am Med Assoc As patients approach the end of life, their disease process may create an immediate life-threatening
emergency, yet invasive interventions may be less likely to provide benefit while carrying the
same or greater risks. Knowing when it is time to shift from life-prolonging to more ... Cited by 49 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
EK Vig, NA Davenport, RA … - Journal of the American …, 2002 - interscience.wiley.com OBJECTIVES:Patient involvement in decision-making has been advocated to improve the quality
of life at the end of life. Although the size of the oldest segment of the population is growing, with
greater numbers of older adults facing the end of life, little is known about their ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►umich.edu [PDF] SL Mitchell, JN Morris, PS Park, BE Fries - Journal of Palliative …, 2004 - liebertonline.com Background: Many older persons with advanced dementia receive terminal care in nursing
homes, others remain in the community with home care services. Objectives: To describe and
compare the end-of-life experience of persons dying with ad- vanced dementia in the ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - All 4 versions
M Mezey, NN Dubler, E Mitty, AA Brody - The Gerontologist, 2002 - Geron Soc America Older adults in the United States die in a variety of settings. Although many (43%) indicate that
they would prefer to die at home, only 19% of older adults actually do so (Fried, van Doorn,
O'Leary, Tinetti, and Drickamer 1999 Citation ). Most older adults die in hospitals. The ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
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