Impact of frailty on do-not-resuscitate orders and healthcare transitions among elderly Koreans with pneumonia

Jung Yeon Choi,Sun Wook Kim,Sol Ji Yoon,Min Gu Kang,Kwang-Il Kim,Cheol-Ho Kim

Impact of frailty on do-not-resuscitate orders and healthcare transitions among elderly Koreans with pneumonia

2018

Jung Yeon Choi
Sun Wook Kim
Sol Ji Yoon
Min Gu Kang
Kwang-Il Kim
Cheol-Ho Kim

Purpose Pneumonia poses a significant health risk in aging societies. We aimed to elucidate the determinative value of frailty for do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in pneumonia patients.

Keywords:

Frailty Index
End-of-life care
Medicine
Do not resuscitate
Physical therapy
Health care
Intensive care medicine
Do Not Resuscitate Order
Septic shock
Malnutrition
Medical record
Pneumonia severity index
Retrospective cohort study
Sepsis
Mortality rate
Internal medicine

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