D22 THE COURSE OF CRITICAL ILLNESS: ADMISSION TO FOLLOW-UP: Regional Variation In Do Not Resuscitate Orders And End Of Life Health Care Use And Spending In The United States
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study to characterize the variation in use of DNR orders in a nationally-representative sample of older patients hospitalized in the United States and investigated associations between regional variation in DNR rates and end-of-life healthcare utilization. Con...
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Veröffentlicht in: | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017-01, Vol.195 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study to characterize the variation in use of DNR orders in a nationally-representative sample of older patients hospitalized in the United States and investigated associations between regional variation in DNR rates and end-of-life healthcare utilization. Conclusions: We identified wide regional variation in DNR orders among hospitalized older adults in the United States that was unexplained by patient characteristics. |
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ISSN: | 1073-449X 1535-4970 |