Pneumonia in Nursing Home Patients With Advanced Dementia: Decisions, Intravenous Rehydration Therapy, and Discomfort

BACKGROUND: Comfort may be an appropriate goal in advanced dementia. Longitudinal studies on physician decision-making and discomfort assessed by direct observation are rare, and intravenous rehydration therapy is controversial. METHODS: To assess treatment decisions and discomfort in patients with...

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Autores principales: van der Steen, Jenny T., Di Giulio, Paola, Giunco, Fabrizio, Monti, Massimo, Gentile, Simona, Villani, Daniele, Finetti, Silvia, Pettenati, Francesca, Charrier, Lorena, Toscani, Franco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28532225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909117709002

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28532225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909117709002

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