Hospitalization at the end of life among nursing home residents with dementia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Half of nursing home residents (NHR) suffer from dementia. End-of-life hospitalizations are often burdensome in residents with dementia. A systematic review was conducted to study the occurrence of hospitalizations at the end of life in NHR with dementia and to compare these figures to NHR without dementia. METHODS:A systematic literature search in MEDLINE, CINAHL and Scopus was conducted in May 2018. Studies were included if they reported proportions of in-hospital deaths or hospitalizations of NHR with dementia in the last month of life. Two authors independently selected studies, extracted data, and assessed quality of studies. RESULTS:Nine hundred forty-five citations were retrieved; 13 studies were included. Overall, 7 studies reported data on in-hospital death with proport

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6737675 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature