Intensive care physicians' attitudes concerning distribution of intensive care resources: A comparison of Israeli, North American and European cohorts

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1140-1143

  Einav, Sharon ^a   Soudry, Ethan ^b   Levin, Phillip D ^a   Grunfeld, Gershon B ^b   Sprung, Charles L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Intensive care; Paternalism; Resource distribution

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNIC GROUP; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ISRAEL; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042549595     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2273-x     Document Type: Article

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