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Editorial

. 2007 Dec 1;335(7630):1103-4.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.39378.654329.80. Epub 2007 Nov 1.

Deciding who to admit to a critical care unit

Eddy Fan, Dale M Needham

PMID: 17975253
PMCID: PMC2099542
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39378.654329.80

Editorial

Deciding who to admit to a critical care unit

Eddy Fan et al. BMJ. 2007.

. 2007 Dec 1;335(7630):1103-4.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.39378.654329.80. Epub 2007 Nov 1.

Authors

Eddy Fan, Dale M Needham

PMID: 17975253
PMCID: PMC2099542
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39378.654329.80

Abstract

Scarce resources may cause doctors to be pessimistic about prognosis and refuse critical care admissions

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Competing interests: None declared.

Comment on

Implications of prognostic pessimism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma admitted to intensive care in the UK within the COPD and asthma outcome study (CAOS): multicentre observational cohort study.
Wildman MJ, Sanderson C, Groves J, Reeves BC, Ayres J, Harrison D, Young D, Rowan K. Wildman MJ, et al. BMJ. 2007 Dec 1;335(7630):1132. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39371.524271.55. Epub 2007 Nov 1. BMJ. 2007. PMID: 17975254 Free PMC article.

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