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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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Current research indicates that neurocognitive sequelae following critical illness are common, may be permanent, and are associated with impairments in daily function, decreased quality of life, and an inability to return to work.
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Instances of futile care evoke strong emotional responses from nurses, and nurses require support in dealing with their distress.
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In these high-risk patients, antidepressant drug treatment does not seem to be related to suicide attempts and death in adults but might be related in children and adolescents.
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Limited literacy is independently associated with a nearly 2-fold increase in mortality in the elderly.
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The intervention area consisted of two hospitals and the 21 nursing homes (NHs) around them compared with another, geographically separate, hospital and the 13 homes around it.
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Crotty M, Whitehead CH, Wundke R, et al .
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Cross-sectional study, Health, Aging and Body Composition data (1999/2000).
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Nutritional intake is often compromised in elderly, multimorbid patients.
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Rates of hospice use observed in this study (22%) were considerably higher than previously reported, although persons with dementia may continue to be underreferred.
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Approximately half of the care providers evaluated both scales as being good measures of pain and easy to use.
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Among elderly people hospitalization of a spouse is associated with an increased risk of death, and the effect of the illness of a spouse varies among diagnoses.
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Faster alleviation of delirium and improved cognition justify good, comprehensive geriatric care for these patients although treatment produced no significant improvements in hard endpoints of prognosis.
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Our findings show a low level of disenrollment.
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This study assessed clinical, demographic, facility, and regional factors associated with documented do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, feeding/medication/other treatment (FMT) restrictions, and living wills among nursing facility residents.
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This pilot study was unable to demonstrate a benefit for donepezil in preventing or treating delirium in a relatively young and cognitively-intact group of elderly patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery.
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However, the advisory did not apply to conventional antipsychotic medications; the risk of death with these older agents is not known.
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Thirty-two percent of residents had DNR directives, whereas less than 2% had DNH directives.
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In 1996, the St. John's region had a population of 8,435 > or = 75 years, with 996 nursing home (NH) beds and 550 supervised care (SC) beds.
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Depression in old age has a poor long-term prognosis; equal evidence shows that the same is true of depression in middle age.
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Both abnormal initiation/perseveration and abnormal Stroop Color-Word scores were associated with an unfavorable response of geriatric depression to citalopram.
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Whilst palliative care is appropriate for elderly patients with chronic, non-malignant disease, few of these patients access such care compared with cancer patients.
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Analysis of the use of hypnotic medication versus CBT for insomnia using an established model for ethical medical decision making leads to the conclusion that hypnotics are not appropriate as the initial treatment in cases of chronic insomnia.
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Self-assessment pain scales can be used reliably in the vast majority of older hospitalized patients with mild to moderate dementia and in nearly half of those with severe dementia.
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Although internal factors explain most about the poor nutritional status of aged residents in nursing homes, the factors related to nutritional care need further investigation to clarify their role in maintaining the nutritional status of aged residents.
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A reasonably accurate, validated model has been produced, with clinical application through a scored point system, to assist clinicians, residents, and family members in defining good goals of care around end-of-life care.
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These findings may facilitate the timely and efficient management of CDAD in nursing home patients.
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These results indicate that markers of systemic inflammation confer a statistically significant additional risk for cardiovascular death among patients with RA, even after controlling for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities.
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The prevalence of comorbidities and functional impairment among elderly patients may enhance the risk of operation-related complications, but the importance of these conditions in elderly patients undergoing thoracic surgery remains unclear.
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A chart-based instrument for delirium, which should be useful for patient safety and quality-improvement programs in older persons, was validated.
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This pilot project demonstrates that a staff educational program on end-of-life care for dementia residents can improve end-of-life knowledge and attitudes among long-term care ancillary staff and that this improvement can be maintained for up to 1 year.
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Our aim was to investigate the long-term prognosis of delirium in the frailest elderly, and to clarify whether delirium is just a marker of the underlying severe disease.
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Scores from domains were summed and classified into 3 categories: 4 or less, minimal; 5-12, moderate; and more than 12, significant content.
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DeMonte Jr., MD, Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, Xinping Cui, PhD, Stefanie Vassar, MS, Naihua Duan, PhD, and Martin Lee, PhDReduced Health Care Costs Associated With Disease Management for Chronic Heart Failure: A Study Using Three Methods to Examine the Financial Impact of a Heart Failure Disease Management Program Among Medicare Advantage EnrolleesEffects of Nurse Management on the Quality of Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities A Randomized TrialJane E.
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The DI appears to be a reliable, valid, and responsive measure of the severity of delirium, in patients with delirium, with or without dementia.
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The most commonly encountered clinical conditions presenting with cognitive failure (CF) are delirium, dementia and amnestic disorders.
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This review shows that occupational therapy interventions for community dwelling elderly people results in positive outcomes.
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The Health Utilities Index (HUI) is a recently developed system for measuring the overall health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) of individuals, clinical groups, and general populations.
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Although concerns about increased bleeding risk with combined warfarin-antiplatelet therapy are not unfounded, the risk of bleeding is moderately increased.
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The incidence of PUs was 0.38 per person-year in the NH.
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Overall, hospice care in NHs does not appear to increase government expenditures.
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Postoperative delirium is a serious complication.
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Nine-hundred twenty-one community-dwelling patients 65 years of age or older, who sustained an operatively treated hip fracture from July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1998 were followed up for the development of postoperative delirium.
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Of 275 patients, 51 (18.5%) had persistent coma and died in the hospital.
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Dementia emerged as the most potent risk factor for institutionalization in this 12-year community-based epidemiological study.
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Hospice enrollment correlates with reduced Medicare expenditures among younger decedents with cancer but increased expenditures among decedents without cancer and those older than 84 years of age.
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Pneumonia is a major medical problem in the very old.
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Predictors of patient wishes and influence of family and clinicians are discussed.
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Delirium is a mental disorder characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation, memory, thought, perception, and behavior, of acute onset and fluctuating course.
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This article is written to help bridge classic Chinese health care systems with the current complementary/alternative medical point of view.
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The expert panel reached consensus on 78% of options rated on the 9-point scale.
From across this tag
10 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 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- CMS GUIDE Model: Lessons Learned by an Established Track Program at End of Year One
- Delirium: more than a marker of baseline vulnerability
- The role of palliative care in patients with neurological diseases
- Evaluation of Federal Policy Changes to the Hospice Benefit and Use of Hospice for Persons With ADRD
- Drug utilization in Belgian nursing homes: impact of residents' and institutional characteristics
- Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in adults in Europe: a literature review
- AGE-FRIENDLY NEW ENGLAND: CREATING HEALTHY AGING DATA REPORTS TO SPUR SOCIAL CHANGE
- Impact of fee-revision policy for gastrostomy on its implementation among older adults with dementia in Japan
- Discussing advance care planning: insights from older people living in nursing homes and from family members
- Care in specialist medical and mental health unit compared with standard care for older people with cognitive impairment admitted to general hospital: randomised controlled trial (NIHR TEAM trial)