
doi: 10.2307/3563292
pmid: 1612881
Some patients in intensive care units are too sick to derive much benefit from being there, while others are too well to require the technology and skills offered. When ICU resources are scarce, they may ethically be withdrawn from either sort of patient in favor of one more likely to benefit from the care.
Physician-Patient Relations, Health Care Rationing, Critical Care, Patient Selection, Patient Advocacy, Prognosis, Resource Allocation, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Withholding Treatment, Social Justice, Personal Autonomy, Humans, Ethics, Medical, Triage
Physician-Patient Relations, Health Care Rationing, Critical Care, Patient Selection, Patient Advocacy, Prognosis, Resource Allocation, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Withholding Treatment, Social Justice, Personal Autonomy, Humans, Ethics, Medical, Triage
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