Association of Increasing Use of Mechanical Ventilation Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia and Intensive Care Unit Beds | Zendy

Joan M. Teno | Zendy; Pedro Gozalo | Zendy; Nita Khandelwal | Zendy; J. Randall Curtis | Zendy; David O. Meltzer | Zendy; Ruth A. Engelberg | Zendy; Vincent Mor | Zendy

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Association of Increasing Use of Mechanical Ventilation Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia and Intensive Care Unit Beds

Author(s) -

Joan M. Teno,

Pedro Gozalo,

Nita Khandelwal,

J. Randall Curtis,

David O. Meltzer,

Ruth A. Engelberg,

Vincent Mor

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

jama internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14

H-Index - 342

eISSN - 2168-6114

pISSN - 2168-6106

DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5964

Subject(s) - medicine , mechanical ventilation , intensive care unit , dementia , emergency medicine , odds ratio , logistic regression , cohort , retrospective cohort study , minimum data set , ventilation (architecture) , intensive care medicine , nursing homes , nursing , disease , mechanical engineering , engineering

Mechanical ventilation may be lifesaving, but in certain persons, such as those with advanced dementia, it may prolong patient suffering without a clear survival benefit.

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