Journal article
Life support in the intensive care unit: a qualitative investigation of technological purposes. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The ability of many intensive care unit (ICU) technologies to prolong life has led to an outcomes-oriented approach to technology assessment, focusing on morbidity and mortality as clinically important end points. With advanced life support, however, the therapeutic goals sometimes shift from extending life to allowing life to end. The objective of this study was to understand the purposes for which advanced life support is …
Authors
Cook DJ; Giacomini M; Johnson N; Willms D
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 161, No. 9, pp. 1109–1113
Publication Date
November 2, 1999
ISSN
0820-3946