Can health care costs be reduced by limiting intensive care at the end of life?

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002 Mar 15;165(6):750-4. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.6.2109045.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Cost Control / methods
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Health Care Costs*
  • Health Care Rationing / economics*
  • Health Services Research
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units / economics
  • Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data*
  • Length of Stay
  • Life Support Care / economics
  • Life Support Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Prognosis
  • Terminal Care / economics*
  • United States