Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
improve the care of intensive care unit (ICU) patients during the
dying process. The recommendations build on those published in
2003 and highlight recent developments in the field from a U.S.
perspective. They do not use an evidence grading system because
most of the recommendations are based on ethical and legal
principles that are not derived from empirically based evidence.
Principal [...]
Tags: decision making, End-of-life, ethics, intensive care unit, palliative care, quality improvement