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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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In the primary analysis, limiting the level of sedation provided no significant benefit in reducing incident delirium.
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Telemental health (TMH) for older patients has the potential to increase access to geriatric specialists, reduce travel times for patients and providers, and reduce ever growing healthcare costs.
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In the continuously aging society, private sectors are expected to play a role in older adult care.
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The quality of dying and quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes in the countries studied are not optimal.
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The increased incidence of seizures and epilepsy in the elderly can be attributed to the increase of age-related and aging-related epileptogenic conditions.
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After a median of 4.7 years of follow-up, the rate of cardiovascular disease was 10.7 events per 1000 person-years in the aspirin group and 11.3 events per 1000 person-years in the placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.83 to 1.08).
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41/100
Delirium can be defined as an 'acute brain dysfunction.'
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The Integrated Memory Care Clinic (IMCC) is a patient-centered medical home as defined by the National Committee for Quality Assurance directed by advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) caring for persons living with dementia (PLWD); physicians provide specialty consultation but do not direct care or care planning.
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Older patients on hemodialysis are at substantial risk of diagnosis with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and carrying these diagnoses is associated with a twofold higher mortality.
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Observational and audit data were collected for 181 patients (average age = 82.5 years) across the two hospitals.
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53/100
Claims and structured EHR data give an incomplete picture of burden related to geriatric syndromes.
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This was a retrospective cohort study to examine differences in health service utilization and outcomes between FFS and MA patients in SNFs following hip fracture hospitalization during the period January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2015, and followed up until December 31, 2015.
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Diabetes care guidelines recommend more relaxed glycemic targets for patients with specific chronic conditions because they are thought to have an increased risk of hypoglycemia, limited life expectancy, and/or high clinical complexity.
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On Census Day, 1.4% of the study sample were living in a nursing home, 1.2% in a seniors' residence, 7.1% in a private dwelling with additional family, and 90.3% in a private dwelling.
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Our results demonstrate delirium is a significant marker of mortality among seniors in the ED, and mortality risk is most salient in the first 3 months following an ED visit.
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Little is known on how risk factors of younger cohorts will play out in the future burden of multi-morbidity (two or more concurrent long-term conditions).
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In contrast to newborns, who spend 16-20 h in sleep each day, adults need only about sleep daily.
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This review highlights the need to integrate trauma-informed practices into hospice and palliative care.
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It was demonstrated that prevalence of polypharmacy, PIM, and PPO could be decreased by CGA including START/STOPP criteria in older adults.
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Terminal illness decedents are more likely to receive any palliative care, with increased intensity and earlier before death than organ failure or frailty decedents.
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There were 1 561 940 patients, including 17 963 hospitalized for ruptured AAA, 304 980 for AMI, 1 181 648 for stroke, 19 675 for aortic dissection, and 37 674 for SAH.
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This study is the first clinical trial to examine the efficacy of combined physical and cognitive exercise on cognitive function in older ICU survivors with delirium.
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In this study, we found an early warning score algorithm focused on deterioration prevention did not account for long-term management or palliative care trajectories.
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Quality of life is dramatically affected in advanced PD patients.
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Between 2011 and 2014, seniors experiencing health decline used various digital health technologies at low absolute rates (range: 1%-20%).
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Our findings suggest that clinicians should consider sedative-associated, hypoxic, and septic delirium, which often co-occur, as distinct indicators of acute brain injury and seek to identify all potential risk factors that may impact on long-term cognitive impairment, especially those that are iatrogenic and potentially modifiable such as sedation.
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The changing dynamics over a 20-year period of this palliative care programme in Kerala, India, highlights the need for similar programmes to remain flexible and adapt their services in response to a growing global burden of Non Communicable Diseases.
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In the advanced stages of illness, patients often face challenging decisions regarding their treatment and overall medical care.
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Further guidelines should be developed to help clinicians to promptly refer terminal cancer and non-cancer patients to hospice care.
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Complexity at multiple levels needs to be understood and overcome to develop effective treatments and preventions for cognitive decline and AD dementia.
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The upward hospital death trend and fact that being married are risk factors for hospital death suggest that a reliance on hospitals may coexist with a tradition of extended family support.
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By 2050, the American 85 years old and over population will triple.
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A nationwide ACP program in the primary care setting is a cost-effective or cost-saving intervention compared to usual care in a population at-risk of developing dementia.
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This paper will describe initiatives within the RHS frameworks of the National Health Group (NHG) and the Alexandra Health System (AHS) to forge a frailty-ready healthcare system across the spectrum, which includes the well healthy ("living well"), the well unhealthy ("living with illness"), the unwell unhealthy ("living with frailty"), and the end-of-life (EoL) ("dying well").
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Of the 18,341 patients, we found that 2202 (12%) were described as "frail" in clinical notes.
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120 patients were included in the audit with a confirmed stroke on CTB/MRI.
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ABSTRACTBackground:Evidence concerning when and in which manner older people living in nursing homes (NHs) would prefer to discuss advance care planning (ACP) is still scarce.
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Timeliness and consistency of relationship is crucial to building rapport and trust in the service's ability to help at post-bereavement as well as a focus on the specific rather than the generic needs of the bereaved.
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The review found that withdrawal of preventive medicines at the end of life is challenging.
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Palliative medicine is a specialty that focuses on improving the quality of life for patients with serious or advanced medical conditions, and it is appropriate at any stage of disease, including at the time of diagnosis.
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Globally, low back pain, migraine, age-related and other hearing loss, iron-deficiency anaemia, and major depressive disorder were the five leading causes of YLDs in 2016, contributing 57·6 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 40·8-75·9 million [7·2%, 6·0-8·3]), 45·1 million (29·0-62·8 million [5·6%, 4·0-7·2]), 36·3 million (25·3-50·9 million [4·5%, 3·8-5·3]), 34·7 million (23·0-49·6 million [4·3%, 3·5-5·2]), and 34·1 million (23·5-46·0 million [4·2%, 3·2-5·3]) of total YLDs, respectively.
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The law has safeguards intended to ensure that patients are acting autonomously, including a 15-day waiting period between two requests, the requirement that patients meet privately with their physicians to confirm they are acting on their own, and the requirement that patients sign a form within 48 hours of taking the aid-in-dying drug to indicate that it is their choice.
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Respiratory distress escalated in the last days.
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Mild cognitive impairment or dementia is a risk for POD.
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Among 1084 patients who completed the questionnaire, 415 (38.3%) had heard about ACP/ADs.
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Heart failure is the quintessential cardiovascular syndrome of aging that results from common cardiovascular conditions in older adults in conjunction with age-associated changes in cardiovascular structure and function.
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Despite a common misconception, older adults engage in sexual behavior.
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This is the first study to consider resident, unit, staff, and home variables that are associated with food intake.
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The current study investigated several factors that might increase the risk of mortality in elderly patients with hip fracture.
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If recent mortality trends continue, 160,000 more people in England and Wales will need palliative care by 2040.
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.
- The mental health workforce gap in low- and middle-income countries: a needs-based approach
- Intraoperative hypotension and postoperative delirium among older high-risk patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery: a retrospective single-centre cohort study
- Predictors of depression and life satisfaction among spousal caregivers in hospice: application of a stress process model
- Risk factors, costs and complications of delayed hospital discharge from internal medicine wards at a Canadian academic medical centre: retrospective cohort study
- Association between nicotine-dependent patients and delirium in intensive care units: a retrospective cohort study using a large clinical database
- Using a collaborative approach to reduce falls in older people’s adult mental health wards in a local health board in Wales
- Early integration of palliative care in a long-term care home: A telemedicine feasibility pilot study
- Predictors of returning home after hip fracture: a prospective cohort study using the UK National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD)
- Advance care planning and dying in nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium: a nationwide survey