ReviewJournal of medical ethics2002
Increasing use of DNR orders in the elderly worldwide: whose choice is it?
Review in Journal of medical ethics, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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- Defining ceilings of treatment in hip fracture patients: prevalence, prognostic value, and the role of orthogeriatric co-management.European geriatric medicine · 2026Article
- Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision-making process: scoping review.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2025Article
- COVID-19 outcomes among patients with dementia and age-matched controls who were hospitalized in 21 US health-care systems.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of patients with do-not-resuscitate and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in a medical intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- "Do-not-resuscitate" preferences of the general Swiss population: Results from a national survey.Resuscitation plus · 2023Article
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- Factors associated with physician decision making on withholding cardiopulmonary resuscitation in prehospital medicine.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- DNR and COVID-19: The Ethical Dilemma and Suggested Solutions.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Live and let die.British dental journal · 2020Article
- Nursing knowledge of and attitude in cardiopulmonary arrest: cross-sectional survey analysis.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Low Rates of Survival Seen in Orthopedic Patients Receiving In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Doctors' attitudes towards the introduction and clinical operation of do not resuscitate orders (DNRs) in Ireland.Irish journal of medical science · 2018Article
- Do-Not-Resuscitate status as an independent risk factor for patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture.World journal of orthopedics · 2017Article
- Do not attempt resuscitation order in Japan.Acute medicine & surgery · 2017Article
- Awareness of do-not-resuscitate orders in the outpatient setting in Saudi Arabia. Perception and implications.Saudi medical journal · 2017Article
- The Natural History of Changes in Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments and Implications for Inpatient Mortality in Younger and Older Hospitalized Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2016Article
- Development of a tool for defining and identifying the dying patient in hospital: Criteria for Screening and Triaging to Appropriate aLternative care (CriSTAL).BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2015Review
- The epidemiology of do-not-resuscitate orders in patients with trauma: a community level one trauma center observational experience.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2015Article
- Seriously ill hospitalized patients' perspectives on the benefits and harms of two models of hospital CPR discussions.Patient education and counseling · 2013Article
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Abstract
Most elderly patients die with an order in place that they not be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNR order). Surveys have shown that many elderly in different parts of the world want to be resuscitated, but may lack knowledge about the specifics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Data from countries other than the US is limited, but differences in physician and patient opinions by nationality regarding CPR do exist. Physicians' own preferences for CPR may predominate in the DNR decision making process for their patients, and many physicians may not want the participation of the elderly or believe that it is necessary. More complete and earlier discussions of a wider range of options of care for patients at the end of life have been advocated. The process ought to include education for patients about the process and efficacy of CPR, and for physicians on how to consider the values and levels of knowledge of their patients, whose preferences may differ from their own.
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