作者
Terri R Fried, Carol van Doorn, John R O'Leary, Mary E Tinetti, Margaret A Drickamer
发表日期
1999/7/20
期刊
Annals of internal medicine
卷号
131
期号
2
页码范围
109-112
出版商
American College of Physicians
简介
Background
Little is known about patients' preferences for site of terminal care.
Objective
To describe older persons' preferences for home or hospital as the site of terminal care and to explore potential reasons for their preferences.
Design
Cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative interviews.
Setting
Participants' homes.
Patients
Community-dwelling persons 65 years of age or older who were recently hospitalized with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or pneumonia and were not selected according to life expectancy; 246 patients participated in quantitative interviews and 29 participated in qualitative interviews.
Measurements
Preference for site of terminal care and the reasons for that preference …
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