Can futility be defined numerically?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1781-1782

  Rapoport, J ^a   Teres, D ^a   Lemeshow, S ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III score; End of life care; Futility; Hospital mortality; Terminally ill patients

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL COST; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0031766858     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199811000-00009     Document Type: Editorial

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