Treatment of the Dying in the Acute Care Hospital

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

Advance Directives for Medical Care — A Case for Greater Use

1991 • 786 citations

Trends in Medicare Payments in the Last Year of Life

1993 • 726 citations

Comfort care for terminally ill patients. The appropriate use of nutrition and hydration

1994 • 482 citations

The Physician's Responsibility toward Hopelessly Ill Patients

1989 • 432 citations

In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

1988 • 419 citations

Must We Always Use CPR?

1987 • 396 citations

Clinical Symptoms and Length of Survival in Patients With Terminal Cancer

1988 • 328 citations

Tube Feedings in Elderly Patients

1988 • 291 citations

The Patient Self-Determination Act and the Future of Advance Directives

1991 • 197 citations

Predicting Life Span for Applicants to

1988 • 181 citations

The inaccessibility of advance directives on transfer from ambulatory to acute care settings.

1995 • 162 citations

Pilot study of 12-month outcomes of nursing home patients with aspiration on videofluoroscopy

1994 • 160 citations

Effect of antibiotic treatment on outcome of fevers in institutionalized Alzheimer patients

1990 • 132 citations

Aspiration pneumonia in nursing home patients fed via gastrostomy tubes.

1989 • 128 citations

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Intensive Care Units

1993 • 121 citations

Nontreatment of Fever in Extended-Care Facilities

1979 • 120 citations

Tube Feeding and Lethal Aspiration in Neurological Patients: A Review of 720 Autopsy Cases

1974 • 103 citations

Timing of referral of terminally Ill patients to an outpatient hospice

1994 • 99 citations

The troubled dream of life : living with mortality

1995 • 93 citations

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Elderly Patients Hospitalized In The 1990s: A Favorable Outcome

1994 • 88 citations

Access to Hospice Programs in End‐Stage Dementia: A National Survey of Hospice Programs

1995 • 86 citations

The Clinical Case Against Tube Feeding in Palliative Care of the Elderly

1987 • 72 citations

Variability in Physician Estimates of Survival for Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1987 • 68 citations

Limited‐Treatment Policies in Long‐Term Care Facilities

1985 • 50 citations

Changes in Orders Limiting Care and the Use of Less Aggressive Care in a Nursing Home Population

1994 • 49 citations

Why Food and Fluids Can Never Be Denied

1986 • 46 citations

Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminal Patient

1996 • 41 citations

Persistent Vegetative State

1985 • 31 citations

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