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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2019

01-06-2019 | Care | Editorial

Focus on ethics and palliative care in the intensive care unit

Authors: Katherine R. Courtright, Dominique D. Benoit, J. Randall Curtis

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2019

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This focus editorial highlights papers on prognostic and palliative care strategies for critically ill patients and their families that were published in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) and other journals in the last 2 years, including five original research papers, one systematic review, one pragmatic review, six “what’s new”, two “understanding the disease”, and one editorial. …
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Metadata
Title
Focus on ethics and palliative care in the intensive care unit
Authors
Katherine R. Courtright
Dominique D. Benoit
J. Randall Curtis
Publication date
01-06-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword
Care
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05602-4

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