A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients

BACKGROUND: 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 exces...

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Main Authors: Rohit K Singal, Robert Sibbald, Brenda Morgan, Mel Quinlan, Neil Parry, Michael Radford, Claudio M Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/429789