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Rationale for physicians to propose do-not-resuscitate orders in elderly community-acquired pneumonia cases.
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Abstract
In many countries, do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders were not legislated, partly because rationale for proposal of DNR orders have not been studied in elderly pneumonia patients with cognitive and physical disorders. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the factors influencing physicians' proposal for DNR orders and their validity as prognostic predictor, by comparing elderly pneumonia cases with and without DNR orders.