Intensive care unit admissions do not pass the reasonableness test

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2809-2811

  Strosberg, Martin A ^a   Teres, Daniel ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Ethics; Intensive care unit; Management; Public policy; Rationing

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 0348147564     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000098849.84086.FF     Document Type: Editorial

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