Hospital variation and temporal trends in palliative and end-of-life care in the ICU

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1405-1411

  Decato, Thomas W ^a   Engelberg, Ruth A ^b   Downey, Lois ^b   Nielsen, Elizabeth L ^b   Treece, Patsy D ^b   Back, Anthony L ^a   Shannon, Sarah E ^a   Kross, Erin K ^b   Curtis, J Randall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; death; dying; end of life care; intensive care; palliative care; withdrawing life support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL WORK; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84878566553     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318287f289     Document Type: Article

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