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Published in: Critical Care 4/2005

01-08-2005 | Commentary

Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness'

Author: David Crippen

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 4/2005

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Abstract

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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Metadata
Title
Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness'
Author
David Crippen
Publication date
01-08-2005
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 4/2005
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc3715

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