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Does receipt of hospice care in nursing homes improve the management of pain at the end of life?
Author(s)Susan C Miller, Vincent Mor, Ning Wu
Journal titleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 50, no 3, March 2002
Pagespp 507-515
KeywordsPain ; Drugs ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Nursing homes ; United States of America.
AnnotationDetailed drug use data contained on the last Minimum Data Set (MDS) before death were used to measure analgesic management of daily pain of 2,644 hospice and 7,929 nursing home patients who had died before April 1997. 15% of hospice residents and 23% of non-hospice residents in daily pain received no analgesics. A lower proportion of hospice residents (21%) received analgesics not recommended by Guidelines from the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). 51% of hospice and 33% of non-hospice residents received regular treatment for daily pain. Improving the analgesic management of pain in nursing homes is essential if high quality end-of-life care in nursing homes is to be achieved. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-020520216 A
ClassmarkCT7: LLD: CX: LV: LHB: 7T

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