Treatment limitations at admission to intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand: Prevalence, outcomes, and resource use

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2082-2089

  Godfrey, George ^a   Pilcher, David ^a,b,c   Hilton, Andrew ^a   Bailey, Michael ^b,c   Hodgson, Carol L ^a,c   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^d  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical care; intensive care; palliative care; resource use; treatment limitation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; APACHE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; KIDNEY DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ADMISSION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84862752915     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31824ea045     Document Type: Article

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