Outcomes of Intensive Care for Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
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- 28 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 160 (4) , 541-547
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.160.4.541
Abstract
DURING the past 2 decades, a clinical, legal, and ethical consensus emerged regarding decision making about life-sustaining treatments.1,2 Simply stated, life-sustaining treatment, including the use of the intensive care unit (ICU), should be offered to patients when such care is clinically indicated and not futile. Since futility is rare,3 in most cases clinicians will offer intensive care to patients for whom there are medical indications for such care and provide patients or their proxy decision makers the information they need to make informed choices.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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