Reasons for refusal of admission to intensive care and impact on mortality

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1772-1779

  Iapichino, Gaetano ^a   Corbella, Davide ^b   Minelli, Cosetta ^c   Mills, Gary H ^d   Artigas, Antonio ^e   Edbooke, David L ^f   Pezzi, Angelo ^a   Kesecioglu, Jozef ^g   Patroniti, Nicolò ^h   Baras, Mario ⁱ   Sprung, Charles L ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

ⁱ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

ICU admission; ICU effectiveness; ICU refusal; ICU triage; ICU hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VENTILATOR;

AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; TRIAGE;

EID: 77957574160     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1933-2     Document Type: Article

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