Persistent Gaps in Use of Advance Directives Among Nursing Home Residents Receiving Maintenance Dialysis

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Aug 1;177(8):1204-1205. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1618.

Abstract

This data analysis seeks to determine whether changes in the use of advance directives between 2000 and 2010 are related to changing patterns of end-of-life care among nursing home residents receiving dialysis.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives / psychology*
  • Cost of Illness
  • Homes for the Aged / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic* / diagnosis
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic* / psychology
  • Nursing Homes / statistics & numerical data*
  • Patient Preference
  • Prognosis
  • Registries / statistics & numerical data
  • Renal Dialysis*
  • Terminal Care / methods
  • Terminal Care / psychology