"If I had only known" - On choice and uncertainty in the ICU

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1779-1781

  Raiten, Jesse M ^a   Neuman, Mark D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84868561056     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1209698     Document Type: Article

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