Intensive care unit strain should not rush physicians into making inappropriate decisions, but merely reduce the time to the right decisions being made

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France; ; Lipness Team, INSERM Research Center UMR 866 and LabExLipSTIC, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France; ; INSERM CIC 1432, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France;
² EA3920, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besancon, Besancon, France ;
³ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France; ; Department of Sociology, UMR 7366 CNRS, University of Burgundy - Franche-Comté, Dijon, France;
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France ;
⁵ Department of Intensive Care, Dieppe General Hospital, Dieppe, France.

Editorial

Jean-Pierre Quenot et al. Ann Transl Med. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;4(16):316.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.07.27.

¹ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France; ; Lipness Team, INSERM Research Center UMR 866 and LabExLipSTIC, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France; ; INSERM CIC 1432, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France;
² EA3920, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besancon, Besancon, France ;
³ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France; ; Department of Sociology, UMR 7366 CNRS, University of Burgundy - Franche-Comté, Dijon, France;
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, François Mitterrand University Hospital, Dijon, France ;
⁵ Department of Intensive Care, Dieppe General Hospital, Dieppe, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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