{"id":1326,"date":"2012-07-12T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/?page_id=1326"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:48:18","slug":"homeless-shelter-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/past-research\/homeless-shelter-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Shelter Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Treatment Preferences for Life Support Among Homeless Persons<\/strong><br \/>\nPrincipal Investigators:\u00a0 JR Curtis and WM Norris<br \/>\nResearch Grant:\u00a0 Chest Foundation, July 2002 to June 2004<\/p>\n<p>This study focused on examining the treatment preferences of a sample of homeless individuals.\u00a0 Our goals were to provide healthcare teams and ethics committees with useful information in making decisions about continuing life support in situations where recovery to independent living is unlikely.\u00a0 The homeless men and women who participated were\u00a0 approached in local area shelters.\u00a0 Each of these subjects completed one, short, interviewer-administered survey.\u00a0 Physician subjects in a comparison group, comprised of attending physicians within the University of Washington system, completed a shorter survey by mail about their resuscitation preferences.\u00a0 All subject data was collected anonymously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Publications from this study include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norris WM, Nielsen EL, Engelberg RA, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Treatment preference for resuscitation and critical care among homeless persons.\u00a0 <em>Chest<\/em>. 2005; 127: 2180-2187.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatment Preferences for Life Support Among Homeless Persons Principal Investigators:\u00a0 JR Curtis and WM Norris Research Grant:\u00a0 Chest Foundation, July 2002 to June 2004 This study focused on examining the treatment preferences of a sample of homeless individuals.\u00a0 Our goals were to provide healthcare teams and ethics committees with useful information in making decisions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions\/1645"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}