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- Title
Withholding antibiotic treatment in pneumonia patients with dementia: a quantitative observational study.
- Authors
van der Steen, Jenny T; Ooms, Marcel E; Adèr, Herman J; Ribbe, Miel W; van der Wal, Gerrit
- Abstract
Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease in nursing home patients with dementia. Physicians and families face choices about whether to withhold antibiotics when patients are expected to die soon or when treatment may be burdensome. However, little information exists on what factors influence this complex decision-making process.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2002, Vol 162, Issue 15, p1753
- ISSN
0003-9926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.162.15.1753