JAMDA
July 27, 2017
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JAMDA
July 5, 2017
Use of Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment for Heart Failure Patients During Postacute Care in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Individuals with heart failure (HF) who are hospitalized and admitted to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are at high risk for rehospitalization and death. The care preferences of this high-risk population have not been studied.
JAMDA
July 1, 2017
Attitudes Toward Advance Directives Among Patients and Their Family Members in China
Chinese people are generally unfamiliar with the concept of advance care planning or advance directives (ACP/ADs), which raises dilemmas in life-support choice and can even affect clinical decision making. To understand and address the issues involved better, we investigated the awareness of ACP/ADs in Chi...
JAMDA
June 28, 2017
The Quality of POLST Completion to Guide Treatment: A 2-State Study
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) need to be complete and consistent to allow health care personnel to honor patient preferences in a time of emergency. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the quality of POLST completion to guide treatment for level of medical intervention. ...
JAMDA
June 13, 2017
Care Toward the End of Life in Older Populations and Its Implementation Facilitators and Barriers: A Scoping Review
To inform health system improvements for care of elderly populations approaching the end of life (EOL) by identifying important elements of care and implementation barriers and facilitators.
JAMDA
May 23, 2017
IAGG/IAGG GARN International Survey of End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
This article reports the findings of a survey on end-of-life (EOL) care in nursing homes of 18 long-term care experts across 15 countries. The experts were chosen as a convenience-based sample of known experts in each country. The survey was administered in 2016 and included both open-ended responses for d...
JAMDA
April 29, 2017
Nursing Home Physicians’ Assessments of Barriers and Strategies for End-of-Life Care in Norway and The Netherlands
Working conditions in nursing homes (NHs) may hamper teamwork in providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care, especially the participation of NH physicians. Dutch NH physicians are specialists or trainees in elderly care medicine with NHs as the main workplace, whereas in Norway, family physicians usually wor...
JAMDA
April 18, 2017
Pain Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents Nearing Death
Although examining point in time prevalence of pain among nursing home (NH) residents has value, there is a lack of evidence describing the actual changes (ie, trajectories) in pain that take place during their last 6 months of life. The main objective of this study is to describe the major pain trajectori...
JAMDA
February 14, 2017
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Preferences of Advance Decisions, End-of-Life Care, and Place of Care and Death in Hong Kong. A Population-Based Telephone Survey of 1067 Adults
According to the 2015 Quality of Death Index published by the Intelligence Unit of the Economist, Hong Kong is ranked 22nd in terms of quality of palliative care in the world, behind many other major developed countries in Asia, including Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. The objectives of the pre...
JAMDA
September 28, 2016
