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Factors associated with the goal of treatment in the last week of life in old compared to very old patients: a population-based death certificate survey

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, May 2014
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Title
Factors associated with the goal of treatment in the last week of life in old compared to very old patients: a population-based death certificate survey
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2318-14-61
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Authors

Tinne Smets, Rebecca Verhofstede, Joachim Cohen, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Luc Deliens

Abstract

Little is known about the type of care older people of different ages receive at the end of life. The goal of treatment is an important parameter of the quality of end-of-life care. This study aims to provide an evaluation of the main goal of treatment in the last week of life of people aged 86 and older compared with those between 75 and 85 and to examine how treatment goals are associated with age.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 4%
Unknown 46 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 19%
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Student > Postgraduate 4 8%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 13 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 16 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 November 2021.
All research outputs
#15,306,972
of 22,765,347 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#2,330
of 3,169 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#133,901
of 227,515 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#24
of 37 outputs
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