Variation in decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapies in US ICUs

Chest

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 573-582

  Quill, Caroline M ^a,b   Ratcliffe, Sarah J ^c   Harhay, Michael O ^b,c   Halpern, Scott D ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics   (United States)

^d Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ANCESTRY GROUP; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVING WILL; MICROCLIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ADHERENCE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907187850     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2529     Document Type: Article

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