A randomized trial of the effect of patient race on physicians' intensive care unit and life-sustaining treatment decisions for an acutely unstable elder with end-stage cancer

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1663-1669

  Barnato, Amber E ^a,b   Mohan, Deepika ^a   Downs, Julie ^c   Bryce, Cindy L ^a,b   Angus, Derek C ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute respiratory failure; cancer; intensive care; palliative care; physician decision making; simulation; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STAFF; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; SIMULATION; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 79959641231     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182186e98     Document Type: Article

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