Admitting cancer patients to the intensive care unit Journal Article
| Author: | Carlon, G. C. |
| Article Title: | Admitting cancer patients to the intensive care unit |
| Abstract: | The allocation of critical care resources must follow criteria of distributive justice. Because most societies cannot indefinitely expand medical care costs, difficult decisions on the quality and quantity of care that can be rendered to each patient are inevitable. Data on which objective decisions can be based are currently being gathered at many levels. It is reasonable to anticipate that over the next few years regulations will be formulated to decide which patients can be admitted to the ICU. Critical care physicians have the right and obligation to be involved in all aspects of these decision-making processes. © 1988 Elsevier Inc. |
| Keywords: | cancer survival; review; risk benefit analysis; cancer patient; outcome assessment; methodology; clinical practice; organization and management; neoplasms; quality of life; intensive care; health care policy; health care cost; intensive care unit; intensive care units; clinical decision making; hospital admission; hospital discharge; terminal care; patient discharge; decision making; hemodynamic monitoring; physician's role; management; microclimate; life support care; patient admission; cancer; human; priority journal; article; malignant neoplasm |
| Journal Title: | Critical Care Clinics |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 0749-0704 |
| Publisher: | W.B. Saunders Co. |
| Date Published: | 1988-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 183 |
| End Page: | 192 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0749-0704(18)30511-6 |
| PUBMED: | 3061577 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Article in "Critical Care of the Cancer Patient" -- Export Date: 6 August 2020 -- Source: Scopus |
