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Family satisfaction in the ICU: differences between families of survivors and nonsurvivors. |
Wall RJ, Curtis JR, Cooke CR, Engelberg RA |
Family Satisfaction in the ICU Background: Prior research revealed that families of patients dying in the ICU reported higher satisfaction with care than did ICU survivorsâ?? families. What asp... |
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Trends in end-of-life ICU use among older adults with advanced lung cancer. |
Sharma G,Freeman J, Zhang D, Goodwin JS. |
Trends in ICU Use by Lung Cancer Patients Background: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission consumes a major proportion of terminal hospitalization costs.1 In-hospital mortality rates of up to 75% have... |
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Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease |
Howard RJ, Juszczak E, Ballard CG, et al. |
Donepezil for Alzheimerâ??s Agitation Background: Agitationâ??anxiety, irritability, restlessness, wandering, and aggressionâ??afflicts 24% of Alzheimerâ??s patients living in... |
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Characteristics of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure who are referred for hospice care. |
Hauptman PJ, Goodlin SJ, Lopatin M, Costanzo MR, Fonarow GC, Yancy CW. |
Patterns of Referral of HF Patients to Hospice Background: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalizations, readmissions, and ambulatory visits in Medicare patients.1,2 What are hospice ref... |
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