Nutritional support is an essential component of caring for critically ill patients.
This study conducted in five ICUs at two academic hospitals in San Francisco sought to describe how comfort care is presented to surrogates and if physicians beliefs on whether life support should be withdrawn are associated with the option of comfort care being presented.
Fagan and colleagues at Denver Health Medical Center examined electronic data collected on all adult patients who generated a medical surgical acute-care room charge during a recent 6-month period and remained on the ward for at least 24 hours.
In this study, the authors sought to elicit perceptions of the impact of a rapid response team (RRT) by interviewing care providers.
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