Primary Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Long-Term Care: Identifying and Managing the Risk
Haas and Spyropoulos
CLIN APPL THROMB HEMOST 2008;14:149-158.
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Lower Respiratory Infections in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Tale of Two Countries
Mehr et al.
Gerontologist 2003;43:85-93.
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Sonography of Lung and Pleura in Pulmonary Embolism : Sonomorphologic Characterization and Comparison With Spiral CT Scanning
Reissig et al.
Chest 2001;120:1977-1983.
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Pneumonia in Long-term Care: A Prospective Case-Control Study of Risk Factors and Impact on Survival
Vergis et al.
Arch Intern Med 2001;161:2378-2381.
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Clinical Suspicion of Fatal Pulmonary Embolism
Pineda et al.
Chest 2001;120:791-795.
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A prospective comparison of nursing home acquired pneumonia with community acquired pneumonia
Lim and Macfarlane
Eur Respir J 2001;18:362-368.
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Venous Thromboembolism in Medical Inpatients: Prophylaxis With Low-Weight Heparin in a University Hospital and Prevalence of Thromboembolic Events
Dhote et al.
CLIN APPL THROMB HEMOST 2001;7:16-20.
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Guidelines on diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism
Eur Heart J 2000;21:1301-1336.
Risk Factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: A Population-Based Case-Control Study
Heit et al.
Arch Intern Med 2000;160:809-815.
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Pneumonia in a Long-term Care Facility: A Prospective Study of Outcome
Muder et al.
Arch Intern Med 1996;156:2365-2370.
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Obtaining consent for autopsy in dementia research: The Memory and Aging Project experience
Norton and Morris
AM J ALZHEIMERS DIS OTHER DEMEN 1996;11:2-6.
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Energy Intake and In-Hospital Starvation: A Clinically Relevant Relationship
Incalzi et al.
Arch Intern Med 1996;156:425-429.
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An Autopsy-Based Study of Diagnostic Errors in Geriatric and Nongeriatric Adult Patients
Middleton et al.
Arch Intern Med 1989;149:1809-1812.
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-year period at our chronic care institution to determine the accuracy of clinical cause of death in addition to the pathologic cause of death. The most common causes of death included bronchopneumonia (33%), congestive heart failure (15%), metastatic carcinoma (14%), pulmonary embolism (8%), myocardial infarction (7%), cerebrovascular accident (6%), unknown cause of death (8%), and a miscellaneous group (9%). The highest diagnostic error rate was in the underdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism (39% antemortem accuracy rate). The most accurately diagnosed condition was cerebrovascular accident (92% antemortem accuracy rate). Pneumonia was correctly diagnosed antemortem in 73% of the patients studied. These data suggest that serious and potentially treatable illnesses are underdiagnosed in the elderly institutionalized patient and that there is valuable information to be learned by performing autopsies in the elderly population.