SMJ articles in the category "end of life"

Original Article

Associations between Present-on-Admission Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Short-Term Outcomes in Patients with Pneumonia

Objectives: Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are used to express patient preferences for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This study examined whether early DNR orders are associated with differences in treatments and outcomes among patients hospitalized with pneumonia. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study of 768,015 adult patients hospitalized with pneumonia from 2010 to…

Posted in: end of life 4 pneumonia 14 resuscitation 5 terminal care 3

Original Article

Advance Care Planning and Proxy Decision Making for Patients with Advanced Parkinson Disease

Objectives: To examine advance care planning practices and proxy decision making by family healthcare proxies for patients with advanced Parkinson disease (PD). Methods: Sixty-four spouses and adult children, self-designated as a/the healthcare proxy for advanced patients with PD, participated in a cross-sectional survey study. Results: Sixty patients with PD (95%)…

Posted in: advance care planning 3 end of life 4 Parkinson disease 7

Original Article

Diversity of Patients’ Beliefs about the Soul after Death and Their Importance in End-of-Life Care

Background: Because beliefs about the soul after death affect the dying experience, patients and survivors may want to discuss those beliefs with their healthcare provider; however, almost no medical research describes such beliefs, leaving healthcare professionals ill prepared to respond. This exploratory study begins the descriptive process. Methods: Assuming that…

Posted in: end of life 4 palliative care 3 terminal care 3

Original Article

Effect of Physician Education and Patient Counseling on Inpatient Nonsurgical Percutaneous Feeding Tube Placement Rate, Indications, and Outcome

Background: The decision to place a percutaneous feeding tube (PFT) in patients who are at the end of life is multidimensional and often complicated. We assessed the effect of physician education and counseling for patients and their surrogates on inpatient nonsurgical (endoscopic and radiologic) PFT placement rates, indications, complications, and…

Posted in: end of life 4 gastroenterology 4 Geriatrics 10
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