A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients
Author(s) -
Rohit K. Singal,
Robert Sibbald,
Brenda Lynn Morgan,
Mel Quinlan,
Neil Parry,
M Radford,
Claudio M. Martin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
canadian respiratory journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1916-7245
pISSN - 1198-2241
DOI - 10.1155/2014/429789
Subject(s) - medicine , critically ill , incidence (geometry) , intensive care medicine , prospective cohort study , critical illness , medline , emergency medicine , physics , political science , law , optics
Health care providers' perceptions regarding appropriateness in end-of-life treatments have been widely studied. While nurses and physicians believe that rationing and other cost-related practices sometimes occur in the intensive care unit (ICU), they allege that treatment is often excessive.
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