Defining and measuring quality palliative and end-of-life care in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Mularski, Richard A ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Dying; End of life care; Intensive care; Measures; Outcome and process assessment (health care); Quality indicators (health care); Quality of health care; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

FAMILY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33750304715     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000241067.84361.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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