More than patient benefit: taking a broader view of ICU admission decisions

Jason N Batten¹, Pedro Caruso^{2

3}, Victoria Metaxa⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. jbatten@stanford.edu.
² Intensive Care Unit, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Pulmonary Division of Heart Institute (InCor), São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Editorial

Jason N Batten et al. Intensive Care Med. 2023 May.

. 2023 May;49(5):556-558.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07074-z. Epub 2023 May 5.

Jason N Batten¹, Pedro Caruso^{2

3}, Victoria Metaxa⁴

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. jbatten@stanford.edu.
² Intensive Care Unit, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Pulmonary Division of Heart Institute (InCor), São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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Comment on

Hospital factors that influence ICU admission decision-making: a qualitative study of eight hospitals.
Valley TS, Schutz A, Miller J, Miles L, Lipman K, Eaton TL, Kinni H, Cooke CR, Iwashyna TJ. Valley TS, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2023 May;49(5):505-516. doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07031-w. Epub 2023 Mar 23. Intensive Care Med. 2023. PMID: 36952016 Free PMC article.

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