Are hospitalized Parkinson’s disease patients more likely to carry a do-not-resuscitate order?

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• 作者：Abhimanyu Mahajan^a ; ¹ ; ^{amahaja1@hfhs.org} ; Achint Patel^b ; ¹ ; Girish Nadkarni^b ; ² ; Christos Sidiropoulos^a ; ²
• 关键词：Parkinson&rsquo ; s disease ; Epidemiology ; Do-not-resuscitate ; Palliative care ; Outcomes research
• 刊名：Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：37
• 期：Complete
• 页码：57-58
• 全文大小：199 K
• 卷排序：37

文摘

We used the largest public national inpatient database in the United States. We analyzed 12,700,000 hospitalizations with age ⩾65 hospitalized in 2012. Proportion of DNR utilization was higher among hospitalizations in PD patients. DNR utilization odds increased with overall disease burden.