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866 studies tagged palliative, 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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This is the first demonstration in the United Kingdom that the mortality of patients with dementia who are fed by gastrostomy is considerable.
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Even after adjustment for certain clinical attributes, individual social factors and local market factors were associated with survival after hospice enrollment.
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The 21 conditions selected as targets for quality improvement among vulnerable older adults include (in rank order): pharmacologic management; depression; dementia; heart failure; stroke (and atrial fibrillation); hospitalization and surgery; falls and mobility disorders; diabetes mellitus; end-of-life care; ischemic heart disease; hypertension; pressure ulcers; osteoporosis; urinary incontinence; pain management; preventive services; hearing impairment; pneumonia and influenza; vision impairment; malnutrition; and osteoarthritis.
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Executive dysfunction was found to be associated with relapse and recurrence of geriatric major depression and with residual depressive symptoms.
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45/100
Participants chose to forego more invasive or long-term treatments at a higher rate than less invasive, short-term treatments in all health states.
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55/100
The aim of this prospective cohort study was to identify the risk factors involved in falls in 190 elderly residents of two geriatric centres in Granada (Andalusia, Spain).
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Our study suggests that being a caregiver who is experiencing mental or emotional strain is an independent risk factor for mortality among elderly spousal caregivers.
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This prospective study followed 392 older spousal caregivers and 427 non-caregivers for an average of 4.5 years.
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Design prospective cohort study.
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Attention to three themes may help clinicians and investigators meet the challenge of treating the common mental disorders of later life: the effect of these disorders on functioning, prevention of the consequences of mental disorders, and integration of mental health care and primary health care services.
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There was no relation between the amount of NIH funding and the incidence, prevalence, or number of hospital days attributed to each condition or disease (P=0.82, P=0.23, and P=0.21, respectively).
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This study confirms that healthy senior citizens as well as senior citizens with underlying medical conditions are at risk for the serious complications of influenza and benefit from vaccination.
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Hospitalization with a psychiatric illness is common among the US end-stage renal disease population.
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These results demonstrate that use of adult day care by caregivers of dementia patients results in lower levels of caregiving-related stress and better psychological well-being when compared to that of controls.
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The main determinants of healthcare use in the Netherlands are old age and disabling conditions, particularly mental disability.
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Quality of life (QOL) is an important outcome measure in caring for terminally ill patients.
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Delirium is an important independent prognostic determinant of hospital outcomes including new nursing home placement, death or new nursing home placement, and functional decline-even after controlling for age, gender, dementia, illness severity, and functional status.
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Follow-up clinical examinations of dementia patients from a population-based study after 3- and 7-year intervals.
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Despite methodologic limitations, certain risk factors for delirium seem to be consistent and could help identify high-risk patients.
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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly has a different clinical presentation than CAP in other age groups.
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Those who did not complete the dialysis-specific living will chose not to because they were not sure what they would want done (12 of 16 patients [75%]).
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Design review and abstraction of medical records and computerized data bases from 5986 members, aged 65 years and older, of a large health maintenance organization in northern California.
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Atrial fibrillation is common in patients residing in long-term care facilities, but its management with warfarin is highly variable.
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Current characteristics and perspectives of Brazilian demographic and epidemiological transition processes are analyzed.
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Thus, a region that is reacting to nursing home abuse might impose regulations or enforcement encouraging additional hospitalization of the frail, and a region that has an oversupply of nursing home beds might have younger and healthier residents who more often desire aggressive diagnosis and treatment.
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We conducted two studies with medically hospitalized cancer and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients to assess the reliability and validity of a new measure of delirium severity, the Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS).
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Diffuse aspiration bronchiolitis (DAB) is a new term that we proposed to define a clinical entity that is characterized by a chronic inflammation of bronchioles caused by recurrent aspiration of foreign particles.
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This study has shown that physical restraints are used frequently in geriatric care in Sweden and that cognitive and physical impairments relate very closely to the use of physical restraints.
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Patients with delirium, dementia, depression, and schizophrenia were administered a newly developed test designed to identify delirium in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting.
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In the study by Derogatis et al., which included patients with all stages of cancer, 47% of the patients met the DSM-III criteria for a psychiatric disorder, with adjustment disorders being the most common.
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Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living appears to be a relatively independent dimension of health status that is related to depressive symptoms, particularly anxiety and depressive ideation as well as retardation and weight loss.
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Most patients who enter hospice care do so late in the course of their terminal illnesses.
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72/100
Mean ADAQ scores were: Dialysis Living Will, 71%; Centre for Bioethics Living Will, 70%; and Medical Directive, 60% (F = 8.27, P < 0.001 (repeat measures analysis of variance); the Dialysis Living Will and Centre for Bioethics Living Will scored significantly higher than the Medical Directive).
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Sickness at admission and functional impairment do not explain the increase in DNR orders with age or the disparity across diagnosis.
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Although psychotropic drug use has been associated with increased risk of falls in long-term care settings; this association may be confounded by the high prevalence of dementia and depression and other fall risk factors.
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61/100
In this HMO, comprehensive geriatric assessment by a consultation team, with limited follow-up, did not improve the health or survival of hospitalized patients selected on the basis of screening criteria.
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Evidence that dying occurs as a natural, final event in the wholeness of human life is culturally, artistically, and scientifically persuasive.
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SubD was more prevalent than MDD in these primary care settings.
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Nonresponders in community surveys of the elderly appear to be disproportionately cognitively impaired.
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These results suggest that management of patients with advanced DAT on a DSCU using a palliative care philosophy may result in less patient discomfort and lower costs than management on a TLTC.
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The authors critically reviewed 26 international and American outcome studies that assessed the effect of psychiatric comorbidity on length of stay for medical/surgical inpatients.
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Previous research indicates that persons assigning values to ranges of health states consider some states to be worse than death.
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Delirium developed in 27 of 107 patients (25%) in the development cohort.
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Between 1980 and 1987, the number of hospital discharges with total hip replacement (THR) increased by more than 90%, while total hospital discharges fell by more than 10%.
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Delirium in the elderly appears to have a poor prognosis.
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Using a structured instrument, 325 elderly patients admitted to a general hospital for an acute medical problem were evaluated daily in order to detect symptoms of delirium.
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One was associated with moderate to marked cerebral amyloid deposition ("pathological aging"), while the other had either minimal or no amyloid deposition ("normal aging").
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The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) exists in both short and long forms.
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A case-control study among 184 matched pairs of patients 65 years of age and older was undertaken to identify risk factors associated with falls and injuries in a long-term care facility in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1984-1985.
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.
- The prognostic significance of subsyndromal delirium in elderly medical inpatients
- Early identification of palliative care needs by family physicians: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators from the perspective of family physicians, community nurses, and patients
- Palliative Care Resource Utilization in Patients with Prion Disease
- Postoperative delirium in the elderly: risk factors and outcomes
- Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: population based matched cohort study
- Acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fracture
- Delirium in the Nursing Home Setting
- Medical costs of Swedish nursing home residents at the end of life: a retrospective observational registry study
- Guanfacine for the management of the behavioral manifestations of delirium in older hospitalized adults
- Investigating three ways of measuring the intrinsic capacity domain of vitality: nutritional status, handgrip strength and ageing biomarkers