Physicians' decision-making roles for an acutely unstable critically and terminally ill patient

Physicians' decision-making roles for an acutely unstable critically and terminally ill patient. Critical care medicine, June 2013, Vol. 41(6), p.1511-17

Uy, J., et al.

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There is substantial variation in use of life sustaining technologies in patients near the end of life but little is known about variation in physicians’ initial ICU admission and intubation decision making processes. Our objective is to describe variation in hospital-based physicians’ communication behaviors and decision-making roles for ICU admission and intubation decisions for an acutely unstable critically and terminally ill patient.