Journal club critique
New obstacles to improving the quality of end-of-life care in ICU
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* Corresponding author: Jeremy M Kahn bocharovmv@upmc.edu
1 The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
3 Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Critical Care 2012, 16:304 doi:10.1186/cc11194
Published: 22 February 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Curtis JR, Nielsen EL, Treece PD, Downey L, Dotolo D, Shannon SE, Back AL, Rubenfeld GD, Engelberg RA: Effect of a quality-improvement intervention on end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a randomized trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 Feb 1;183(3):348-55. Epub 2010 Sep10.PMID:20833820