JAMDA
May 21, 2021
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JAMDA
January 9, 2021
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Nursing Home End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review
Health disparities are pervasive in nursing homes (NHs), but disparities in NH end-of-life (EOL) care (ie, hospital transfers, place of death, hospice use, palliative care, advance care planning) have not been comprehensively synthesized. We aim to identify differences in NH EOL care for racial/ethnic mino...
JAMDA
January 6, 2021
Advance Care Planning in Asia: A Systematic Narrative Review of Healthcare Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Experience
The value of advance care planning (ACP) for patients with life-limiting illnesses is widely recognized but Asian health care professionals' (HCPs') perspectives on ACP have received little systematic attention. We aim to synthesize evidence regarding Asian HCPs’ knowledge of, attitudes toward, a...
JAMDA
November 19, 2020
Effects of an Integrated Palliative Care Pathway: More Proactive GPs, Well Timed, and Less Acute Care: A Clustered, Partially Controlled Before-After Study
This study presents the design of an integrated, proactive palliative care pathway covering the full care cycle and evaluates its effects using 3 types of outcomes: (1) physician-reported outcomes, (2) outcomes reported by family, and (3) (utilization of) health care outcomes.
JAMDA
November 18, 2020
Changes in Advance Care Planning for Nursing Home Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Describe the care preference changes among nursing home residents receiving proactive Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations from health care practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAMDA
November 13, 2020
To What Extent Do Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Reflect Patients' Preferences for Care at the End of Life?
To assess whether medical orders within Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms reflect patients' preferences for care at the end of life.
JAMDA
October 26, 2020
Staff Training Interventions to Improve End-of-Life Care of Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review
The aim was to review evidence from all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using palliative care education or staff training as an intervention to improve nursing home residents' quality of life (QOL) or quality of dying (QOD) or to reduce burdensome hospitalizations.
JAMDA
October 9, 2020
Sedatives and Sedation at the End of Life in Nursing Homes: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study
There is scarce information about sedation in nursing homes at the end of life. We aimed to assess (1) the use of sedatives generally and “sedatives with continuous effect,” based on objective operational criteria, within the last week of life in nursing homes and (2) factors associated with this treatment...
JAMDA
August 4, 2020
Advance Directive Completion and Its Associated Factors Among Older Chinese Americans
To examine the factors of advance directive (AD) completion among older Chinese Americans.
JAMDA
July 28, 2020
End-of-Life Care among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Varies by Nursing Home and Market Characteristics
Nursing homes (NHs) are critical end-of-life (EOL) care settings for 70% of Americans dying with Alzheimer's disease/related dementias (ADRD). Whether EOL care/outcomes vary by NH/market characteristics for this population is unknown but essential information for improving NH EOL care/outcomes. Our ob...
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