Improving palliative care in intensive care units: Identifying strategies and interventions that work

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Byock, Ira ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Continuity of care; Critical care; Family care; Intensive care; Moral distress; Palliative care; Spiritual care; Symptom management

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 33750378010     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000237347.94229.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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