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Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness'
When patients or their families rarely request inappropriate end of life care in the ICU for capricious reasons. End of life treatment decisions that only prolong discomfort and death are usually emotional and based on unrealistic expectations. I explore some of those reasons in this paper.
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BioMed Central
2005
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1269444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16137368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3715 |
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| author | Crippen, David |
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| description | When patients or their families rarely request inappropriate end of life care in the ICU for capricious reasons. End of life treatment decisions that only prolong discomfort and death are usually emotional and based on unrealistic expectations. I explore some of those reasons in this paper. |
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| spelling | pubmed-12694442005-10-28 Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' Crippen, David Crit Care Commentary When patients or their families rarely request inappropriate end of life care in the ICU for capricious reasons. End of life treatment decisions that only prolong discomfort and death are usually emotional and based on unrealistic expectations. I explore some of those reasons in this paper. BioMed Central 2005 2005-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1269444/ /pubmed/16137368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3715 Text en Copyright © 2005 BioMed Central Ltd |
| spellingShingle | Commentary Crippen, David Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title | Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title_full | Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title_fullStr | Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title_short | Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| title_sort | medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness' |
| topic | Commentary |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1269444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16137368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3715 |
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