Which late-stage Alzheimer's patients should be referred for hospice care?

dc.contributor.author	Modi, Seema	eng
dc.contributor.author	Moore, Cassandra	eng
dc.date.issued	2005	eng
dc.description.abstract	Medicare guidelines are used to determine eligibility for hospice care (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, based on expert opinion), but they correlate with 6-month mortality no better than an experienced clinician's judgment (SOR: B, based on 1 cohort study). Recent studies, however, have identified additional criteria that may better predict survival in select populations.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/3389	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	Family Physicians Inquiries Network	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcollection	Clinical Inquiries, 2005 (MU)	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity	University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Medicine. Department of Family and Community Medicine. Family Physicians Inquiries Network	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of family practice, 54, no. 11 (November 2005)	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.	eng
dc.subject	Minimum Data Set (MDS)	eng
dc.subject	Medicare guidelines	eng
dc.subject	Functional Assessment Staging Scale (FAST)	eng
dc.subject	mortality	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Alzheimer's disease	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Hospice care	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Medicare -- Law and legislation	eng
dc.title	Which late-stage Alzheimer's patients should be referred for hospice care?	eng
dc.type	Article	eng

Clinical Inquiries, 2005
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