Intensive care unit provision at the end of life: miles travelled, miles to go

Affiliations

¹ Supportive Care Service, Department of Medicine, and Critical Care Service, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: nelsonj@mskcc.org.
² Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.

Comment

Judith E Nelson et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;7(7):560-562.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30168-7. Epub 2019 May 20.

¹ Supportive Care Service, Department of Medicine, and Critical Care Service, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: nelsonj@mskcc.org.
² Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.

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