Quality of death: assessing the importance placed on end-of-life treatment in the intensive-care unit.

Context: The value of good end-of-life (EOL) care could be underestimated if its effects are assessed using the standard metric of quality-adjusted survival, especially if the time horizon is limited to the duration of the EOL care. This issue is particularly problematic in the intensive-care unit (...

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Publicado en:Medical Care Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 423 - 432
Autores principales: Bryce CL, Loewenstein G, Arnold RM, Schooler J, Wax RS, Angus DC, Bryce, Cindy L, Loewenstein, George, Arnold, Robert M, Schooler, Jonathan, Wax, Randy S, Angus, Derek C
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins May2004
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