The impact of end-of-life care on ICU outcome

Hans Flaatten^{1

2}, Dylan deLange³, Christian Jung⁴, Michael Beil⁵, Bertrand Guidet⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. hans.flaatten@uib.no.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. hans.flaatten@uib.no.
³ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine- University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Intensive Care, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁶ Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Saint Antoine Hospital, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Service de réanimation, 75012, Paris, France.

Hans Flaatten et al. Intensive Care Med. 2021 May.

. 2021 May;47(5):624-625.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-021-06365-7. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Hans Flaatten^{1

2}, Dylan deLange³, Christian Jung⁴, Michael Beil⁵, Bertrand Guidet⁶

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. hans.flaatten@uib.no.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. hans.flaatten@uib.no.
³ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine- University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Intensive Care, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁶ Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Saint Antoine Hospital, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Service de réanimation, 75012, Paris, France.

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