Alfred F. Connors

TL;DR: Many are calling for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to receive hospice care, but the traditional hospice model may be insufficient.

TL;DR: Patients' willingness to live permanently in a nursing home and surrogate and physician understanding of that preference is evaluated.

TL;DR: To characterize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease over patients' last 6 months of life, a large number of patients diagnosed with COPD have had at least one episode of central giant cell granuloma.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship of median estimates with time to death for each source of data, for different diseases, and for ICU settings of care and found that median prognostication estimates were not much different when given by physicians and were only a little more pessimistic in APACHE (median estimate for hospital survival on the day before death was.14 and 7 days before was.45).

TL;DR: Would increasing the documentation of advance directives (ADs) lead to a reduction in resource utilization?