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Critical Care
Published in: Critical Care 5/2010

01-10-2010 | Letter

Can we afford open-ended ICU care? Yes we can, but ...

Authors: Klaas-Sierk Arnold, Jaap E Tulleken, Jack JM Ligtenberg, Jan G Zijlstra

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 5/2010

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Excerpt

The question whether we can afford open-ended intensive care unit (ICU) care should be answered with 'yes we can, but ...' [1]. The discussion is polarized. The US system will crash because everybody is right when it comes to open-ended care, and in Europe endless care is prohibited or rationed. With polarization, we lose sight of the middle path, where truth and solutions usually are found. …
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Metadata
Title
Can we afford open-ended ICU care? Yes we can, but ...
Authors
Klaas-Sierk Arnold
Jaap E Tulleken
Jack JM Ligtenberg
Jan G Zijlstra
Publication date
01-10-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 5/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9267

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