Journal article
Nonbeneficial Treatment Canada
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Many healthcare workers are concerned about the provision of nonbeneficial treatment in the acute care setting. We sought to explore the perceptions of acute care practitioners to determine whether they perceived nonbeneficial treatment to be a problem, to generate an acceptable definition of nonbeneficial treatment, to learn about their perceptions of the impact and causes of nonbeneficial treatment, and the ways that they feel …
Authors
Downar J; You JJ; Bagshaw SM; Golan E; Lamontagne F; Burns K; Sridhar SK; Seely A; Meade MO; Fox-Robichaud A
Journal
Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 270–281
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
February 2015
DOI
10.1097/ccm.0000000000000704
ISSN
0090-3493