"In the last stages of irremediable disease": American hospitals and dying patients before World War II.
Bull Hist Med
; 85(1): 29-56, 2011.
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ABSTRACT
After a brief discussion of early- and mid-nineteenth-century hospitals, this article focuses on the years between 1880 and 1939, when those facilities underwent a major transformation and the proportion of hospital deaths steadily increased. During both periods, private hospitals refused admission to many seriously ill people and discharged others when death approached. City hospitals dumped poor patients with advanced disease on chronic care facilities and especially on almshouses. With each transfer, the quality of care sharply declined. And trips from one institution to another often inflicted additional suffering; some accelerated death.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Calidad de la Atención de Salud
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Cuidado Terminal
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Hospitales Urbanos
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Transferencia de Pacientes
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Hospitales Privados
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Negativa al Tratamiento
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Mortalidad Hospitalaria
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Inutilidad Médica
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bull Hist Med
Año:
2011
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Article