Recognizing dementia as a terminal illness in nursing home residents: Comment on "Survival and comfort after treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia"

Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jul 12;170(13):1107-9. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.166.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living*
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Dementia / complications*
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Homes for the Aged*
  • Humans
  • Massachusetts / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia / drug therapy*
  • Pneumonia / mortality
  • Prospective Studies
  • Survival Rate / trends
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents