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866 studies tagged mortality, dated 1963-09-21 to 2026-09-04. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
Newest in this topic
- Secondary causes among adult patients presenting with first-episode psychosis to acute medical settings in Hong Kong: A 10-Year retrospective study 2026-09-04
- Aspirin and healthy longevity within racial and ethnic minoritized older adults in the United States 2026-08-27
- Baseline Statin Exposure and Incident Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adults Aged >=75 Years Without Prior Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study 2026-08-25
Studies
866 studies carry this tag.
Date range
1963 to 2026
Top journals
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65
- JAMA 24
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 22
- Journal of pain and symptom management 20
- Palliative medicine 19
387 journals in all.
Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.
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Antipsychotic initiation and use were common during hospitalization, most often for delirium, and individuals were frequently discharged on these medications.
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Preinjury physical frailty is the predominant predictor of postinjury functional status and mortality in geriatric trauma patients.
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Patients with multiple serious conditions account for a high proportion of health care spending.
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Frailty and depression are important issues affecting older adults.
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This is relevant as the number of old people (a) living alone and (b) suffering from dementia is expected to increase rapidly in the next decades.
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68/100
Major postoperative complications and delirium are separately associated with adverse events and demonstrate a combined effect.
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Overall, patients dying as a result of non-cancer diseases were twice as likely to be admitted to ICUs at the EOL as patients dying due to cancer.
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Taiwan's accelerated rate of aging is more than twice that of European countries and United States.
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Gatekeeping is motivated by the general assumption of vulnerability of patients, coupled with an emphasis on the duty to protect patients.
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At cohort entry, the mean age was 54.8 years (SD 13.3), 56.5% were men, and 72.8% were black.
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Delirium affected a fifth of acute medical admissions and a third of those aged ≥75 years, and was associated with increased mortality, institutionalisation and dependency, but not with increased risk of re-admission on follow-up.
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Changing staff practice in nursing homes is possible but complex.
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Thirty-one studies describing 21 delirium screening tools were included in the systematic review.
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People continue to receive disease-focused therapies at the end of life rather than therapies exclusively for palliation of symptoms, suggesting that treatments may vary according to the person's primary diagnosis.
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This benefit is being offered at no cost to eligible Medicare recipients; however, recent reports suggest that few persons are taking advantage of it (1–3) and who is using it is unclear.
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A rising trend of admission spells was noted from January 2005 to March 2013 (daily average admissions for month rising from over 2000 to over 4000).
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36/100
Our results help to elucidate the tasks and roles required of FPs to make integration of a palliative care approach into the care continuum possible.
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Specialist palliative care is not initiated in almost half of the people for whom it could be beneficial, most frequently because physicians deem regular caregivers to be sufficiently skilled in addressing palliative care needs.
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Sleep quality decreases with aging and thus sleep complaints are prevalent in older adults, particularly for those with cognitive impairment and dementia.
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Our pilot study results indicate that it is feasible to recruit, retain, and provide follow-up telephone coaching to older adults after hip fracture.
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Compared with waiver enrollees, PACE enrollees had 31% lower risk of long-term NH admission (p < .001).
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with poor outcomes, perhaps due to a high burden of comorbidity.
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This review is one of the first to provide an overview of the available literature in relation to strategies used to improve the organisation of palliative care.
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Health care aides frequently report care that is rushed and tasks omitted due to lack of time.
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Most people in Germany die in institutions; the most common place of death is still the hospital, where more than half of all deaths take place.
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Seventeen randomized clinical trials tested decision tools in serious illness.
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There is need for clearer articulation of the likely mechanisms by which advance care planning can lead to reduced care costs or improved cost-effectiveness, particularly for people who retain capacity.
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The level of technology use in the context of aging in place is influenced by six major themes: challenges in the domain of independent living; behavioral options; personal thoughts on technology use; influence of the social network; influence of organizations, and the role of the physical environment.
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Older adults who survive critical illness have physical and cognitive declines resulting in disability at greater rates than hospitalized, noncritically ill and community dwelling older adults.
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The growth in hospice care for nursing home residents was associated with less aggressive care near death but at an overall increase in Medicare expenditures.
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The early integration of specialist palliative care has been shown to benefit the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer.
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Although patient factors remain associated with differential healthcare utilization at the end of life, utilization declined over time and use of palliative care services increased.
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A cross-sectional study of geriatric patients was performed to provide a comprehensive description of the prevalence and clinical characteristics of chronic itch affecting Hispanic geriatric subjects in Mexico.
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The RADAR tool proved to be efficient, reliable, sensitive and very well accepted by nursing staff.
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End-of-life transitions between health care settings are common across EU countries, in particular late hospitalizations for people residing at home.
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These contrasting illness narratives affect and shape the experiences, thoughts, and fears of patients and their carers in the last months of life.
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This study shows that a minority of Dutch physicians find it conceivable that they would grant a request for EAS from a patient with psychiatric disease, dementia or a patient who is tired of living.
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Despite the fact that pain is the most common complaint at the end of life, pain management may be suboptimal for some primary diagnoses.
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Only 11 putative risk factors for delirium are supported by either strong or moderate level of evidence.
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Existing literature analyzing the choice of received long-term care by frail elderly (65 years) predominantly focuses on physical and psychological conditions of elderly people as factors that influence the decision for a particular type of care.
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Studies were significantly heterogeneous in terms of country, outcomes assessed, and the timing of post-ED outcome assessments.
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Successful strategies from other disciplines could be considered by palliative care researchers.
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Cognitive complaints are common in the geriatric population.
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Residents and relatives experience ethical challenges in Norwegian nursing homes, mostly connected to "everyday ethical issues."
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The purpose of this retrospective, cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of advance care planning (ACP) among older people presenting to an Emergency Department (ED) from the community or a residential aged care facility.
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Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over the age of 65 and represents a significant clinical and economic burden.
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A total of 21,788 citations were screened, and seven studies of diverse quality were included in the review, comprising 1,691 participants.
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Future palliative care policy decisions in Ireland must consider the rapidly aging Irish population with the accompanying increase in deaths from cancer, dementia, and neurodegenerative disease and associated palliative care need.
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23% of the total global burden of disease is attributable to disorders in people aged 60 years and older.
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Altered consciousness has been regarded as a core feature of delirium; the fact that consciousness itself should be physiologically disrupted due to acute illness attests to its clinical urgency.
From across this tag
9 of the 862 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- Going back home digitally: gift for patients with end-stage heart failure
- In situ monitoring of health in older adults: technologies and issues
- Factors predicting incidence of post-operative delirium in older people following hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Development and validation of a prognostic index for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospitalization
- Delirium in older medical inpatients and subsequent cognitive and functional status: a prospective study
- Is hospice associated with improved end-of-life care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities?
- Population-Based Estimates of 1-Year Mortality After Major Surgery Among Community-Living Older US Adults
- Barriers to and facilitators for implementing quality improvements in palliative care - results from a qualitative interview study in Norway
- Causes of death in elderly nursing home residents