Rationing in the intensive care unit: To disclose or disguise?

Rationing in the intensive care unit: To disclose or disguise? Critical care medicine, Jan 2012, Vol. 40(1), p.261-266.

Young, M.J., et al.

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2012/01000/Rationing_in_the_intensive_care_unit___To_disclose.38.aspx

Growing pressures to ration intensive care unit beds and services pose novel challenges to clinicians. Whereas the question of how to allocate scarce intensive care unit resources has received much attention, the question of whether to disclose these decisions to patients and surrogates has not been explored.