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Physical functioning, depression and preferences for treatment at the end of life
— the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study | | Author(s) | Joseph B Straton, Nae-Yuh Wang, Lucy A Meoni |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 52, no 4, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 577-582 |
| Source | http://www.americangeriatrics.org http://www.blackwellpublishing.com |
| Keywords | Medical workers ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Depression ; Medical care ; Terminal care ; Wills [legal services] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study is a longitudinal cohort study of medical students who graduated from the School of Medicine from 1948 to 1964. In the present study, 645 physicians (mean age 68) who completed the life-sustaining treatment questionnaire in 1998, also provided information about their health status in 1992 and 1998. Of these physicians, 11% experienced clinically significant decline in physical functioning, and 18% experienced worsening depression over the 6-year period. Those with declining function and worsening depression were more likely to prefer high burden treatment than respondents who did not. The study draws attention to the need for clinical reassessment of preferences for potentially life-sustaining treatment when health has declined, if the underestimation of older patients' preferences is to be prevented. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040603213 A |
| Classmark | QT: CA: C4: ENR: LK: LV: JV:VTH: 3J: 7T |
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