A National Study of the Location of Death for Older Persons with Dementia

A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

1995 • 2,794 citations

Alzheimer Disease in the US Population

2003 • 2,179 citations

A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously III Hospitalized Patients

1995 • 2,163 citations

Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care

2004 • 1,449 citations

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

1998 • 883 citations

Terminal cancer care and patients' preference for place of death: a prospective study.

1990 • 560 citations

Dying With Advanced Dementia in the Nursing Home

2004 • 547 citations

Survival of Medicare Patients after Enrollment in Hospice Programs

1996 • 535 citations

Influence of Patient Preferences and Local Health System Characteristics on the Place of Death

1998 • 399 citations

Treatment of the Dying in the Acute Care Hospital

1996 • 220 citations

Factors Associated With Site of Death

2003 • 200 citations

Changes in the Location of Death after Passage of Medicare's Prospective Payment System

1989 • 167 citations

Managed Care, Hospice Use, Site of Death, and Medical Expenditures in the Last Year of Life

2002 • 162 citations

Place of Death and Its Predictors for Local Patients Registered at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

2002 • 145 citations

Reporting of Dementia on Death Certificates: A Community Study

1999 • 107 citations

Place of death of Houston area residents with cancer over a two-year period

2003 • 99 citations

Characteristics of dementia end-of-life care across care settings

2003 • 82 citations

End‐of‐Life Care in Assisted Living and Related Residential Care Settings: Comparison with Nursing Homes

2003 • 79 citations

Predicting Place of Death in the Program of All‐Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): Participant versus Program Characteristics

2002 • 67 citations

Who Dies at Home? Determinants of Site of Death for Community‐Based Long‐Term Care Patients

1999 • 61 citations

Sensitivity and Specificity of Death Certificate Diagnoses for Dementing Illnesses, 1988–1990

1992 • 60 citations

Death Certificate Reporting of Dementia and Mortality in an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Cohort

1995 • 55 citations

Medicare use in the last ninety days of life.

1992 • 42 citations

Patterns of Predeath Service Use by Dementia Patients with a Family Caregiver

1994 • 23 citations