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Haloperidol overdosing in the treatment of agitated hospitalized older people with delirium: a retrospective chart review from a community teaching hospital. |
Zirker W, Dorokhine I, Knapp CM, Patel N, Musuku M. |
Haloperidol Overdosing of Agitated Hospitalized Older People with Delirium Background: After behavioral interventions fail, haloperidol is indicated as a first-line medication for the management of a... |
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Hospital variation and temporal trends in palliative and end-of-life care in the ICU. |
DeCato TW, Engelberg RA, Downey L, et al. |
Inter-Hospital Variation in End-of-Life Care in the ICU Background: Approximately one-fifth of all deaths in the United States occur during or soon after a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU).... |
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Descending facilitation maintains long-term spontaneous neuropathic pain. |
Wang R, King T, De Felice M, Guo W, Ossipov MH, Porreca F. |
Mechanisms That Maintain Long-Term Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain Background: A chronic condition, neuropathic pain can entail episodes of spontaneous and/or temperature- or touch-induced pain. What me... |
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Polypharmacy and mortality among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment: results from the SHELTER study. |
Onder G, Liperoti R, Foebel A, et al.; and SHELTER project |
Polypharmacy and Mortality Among Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents Background: In Western countries, 50%-60% of nursing home (NH) residents are diagnosed with dementia, and often other chro... |
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Making sense of receiving palliative treatment: its significance to palliative cancer care communication and information provision. |
Ohlén J, Wallengren Gustafsson C, Friberg F. |
Making Sense of Receiving Palliative Care Background: Sense-making is critical to the alleviation and transformation of suffering1 and therefore is within the goals of palliative care. How do patient... |
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Association of patient preferences for participation in decision making with length of stay and costs among hospitalized patients. |
Tak HJ, Ruhnke GW, Meltzer DO. |
Patient Preferences for Participation in Decision Making, Length of Stay, and Costs Background: The benefits of patients' participation in medical decision making include improved patient satisfactio... |
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