Terminal Care of the Very Old

Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in a community population of older persons. Higher than previously reported

1989 • 1,630 citations

A Prospective Study of Advance Directives for Life-Sustaining Care

1991 • 493 citations

Delirium. The occurrence and persistence of symptoms among elderly hospitalized patients

1992 • 482 citations

The Problem with Futility

1992 • 463 citations

The Economics of Dying -- The Illusion of Cost Savings at the End of Life

1994 • 346 citations

Hospital Use and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven

1989 • 341 citations

The Medical Directive

1989 • 329 citations

How Strictly Do Dialysis Patients Want Their Advance Directives Followed?

1992 • 306 citations

Effects of Offering Advance Directives on Medical Treatments and Costs

1992 • 264 citations

Advance directives on admission. Clinical implications and analysis of the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990

1991 • 185 citations

Hospice Approach to the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

1986 • 169 citations

Advance directives. Stability of patients' treatment choices

1994 • 154 citations

Empowerment of the Older Patient? A Randomized, Controlled Trial To Increase Discussion and Use of Advance Directives

1992 • 149 citations

Cost savings in hospice: final results of the National Hospice Study.

1985 • 123 citations

Do-not-resuscitate orders. Time for reappraisal in long-term-care institutions

1988 • 122 citations

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Intensive Care Units

1993 • 121 citations

Relationship of General Advance Directive Instructions to Specific Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences in Patients With Serious Illness

1992 • 114 citations

The Outcome of CPR Initiated in Nursing Homes

1990 • 112 citations

Relationship of Advance Directives to Hospital Charges in a Medicare Population

1994 • 104 citations

Mechanical ventilation for the elderly patient in intensive care. Incremental changes and benefits.

1993 • 98 citations

Does Age Affect Outcomes of Out-of-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?

1990 • 97 citations

Impact of Medical Hospitalization on Treatment Decision-Making Capacity in the Elderly

1990 • 95 citations

Outcome of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Intensive Care Setting

1992 • 93 citations

The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order

1990 • 77 citations

Do Not Resuscitate Orders and the Cost of Death

1993 • 75 citations

Rationing, Patient Preferences, and Cost of Care at the End of Life

1992 • 73 citations

Do Clinical and Formal Assessments of the Capacity of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit to Make Decisions Agree?

1993 • 56 citations

New do-not-resuscitate policies. A first step in cost control.

1993 • 54 citations

Mortality in intensive care patients with respiratory disease. Is age important?

1992 • 54 citations

The quality of mercy. Caring for patients with 'do not resuscitate' orders.

1992 • 51 citations

Evaluation of a Treatment Limitation Policy With a Specific Treatment-Limiting Order Page

1994 • 48 citations

Use of Life‐Sustaining Care for the Elderly

1991 • 48 citations

Advance Directives on Hospital Admission

1993 • 45 citations

Advance directives. Effect of type of directive on physicians' therapeutic decisions

1993 • 42 citations

Survival of Adult High-Cost Patients

1981 • 39 citations

Medical Decision‐Making in the Last Six Months of Life: Choices about Limitation of Care

1994 • 38 citations

Roadblocks to Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders

1993 • 38 citations

Terminating Treatment: Age as a Standard

1987 • 36 citations

Changes in Physician Attitudes Toward Limiting Care of Critically Ill Patients

1991 • 26 citations

Limiting Medical Care: Physicians' Beliefs, Physicians' Behavior

1988 • 22 citations

The high costs of dying.

1980 • 17 citations

Transferring the Terminally Ill

1984 • 10 citations