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Understanding disparities in aggressive care preferences between patients with terminal illness and their family members
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- Issue Date
- 2006-06
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT Vol.31 No.6, pp. 513-521
- Keywords
- 의약학 ; Disparity ; aggressive care ; preference ; terminal illness
- Abstract
- We examined the factors associated with the disparity in aggressive care preferences between patients with terminal cancer and their family members. Two hundred forty-four consecutive pairs recruited from three university hospitals participated in this study. Each pair completed questionnaires that measured two major aggressive care preferences-admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Sixty-eight percent of patients and their family members were in agreement regarding admission to the ICU and 71% agreed regarding CPR. Regarding admission to the ICU, younger, unmarried patients and patients who preferred to die in an institution were more likely to have a different preference from their family caregivers. Regarding CPA younger patients and patients from severely dysfunctional families were more likely to have a different preference from their family caregivers. Elucidation of the factors associated with such disparities should help reduce them.
- ISSN
- 0885-3924
- Language
- English
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