title: [Not Available].
abstract: The authors examined charts for evidence of the use of intravenous fluids in all patients who died from malignant disease occurring in a tertiary care teaching hospital during a 1-year period. Total lengths of stay and survival time after obtaining "do not resuscitate" orders were longer in those who died without intravenous fluids. More than two-thirds of patients with cancer who died in hospital did so with an intravenous line.
authors.forename: F I
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Burge
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Willison