Serious Illness and End-of-Life Treatments for Nurses Compared with the General Population.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As key team members caring for people with advanced illness, nurses teach patients and families about managing their illnesses and help them to understand their options. Our objective was to determine if nurses' personal healthcare experience with serious illness and end-of-life (EOL) care differs from the general population as was shown for physicians.

Design

Observational propensity-matched cohort study.

Setting

Fee-for-service Medicare.

Participants

Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and a random 20% national sample of Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 years or older with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) or congestive heart failure (CHF) diagnosed in the hospital.

Measurements

Characteristics of care during the first year after diagnos

SUBMITTER: Bynum J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8559590 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature