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2019


Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther


51


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End-of-life management in intensive care units: a multicentre observational prospective cohort study.

Authors

Alliprandini M, Ferrandin A, Fernandes A, Belim M, Jorge M, Colombo B, Yaguchi J, Chung T, Jorge A, Duarte P
Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther. 2019; 51(5):348-356.
PMID: 31893601.

Abstract

The study was conducted to evaluate intensive care unit (ICU) patients that ultimately died but could have met criteria for end-of-life management/palliative care (ELM-PC), and to analyse the application of components of palliative care, either "unperformed procedures" or elements of "futile/unnecessary treatment".