Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study*

By Derek C. Angus, A. Barnato, W. Linde‐Zwirble, L. Weissfeld, R. Watson, T. Rickert, G. Rubenfeld. Critical Care Medicine, 2004

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Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers' mental health. (2010, background): “though most patients with cancer prefer to die at home,(6) 36% die in a hospital and 8% die in an intensive care unit (ICU).(7,8) Nearly 25% of Medi-”
Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (2008, background): “Even so, the ICU has become a common place to die; studies show that 22% of all deaths in the United States now occur in or after admission to an ICU (2).”
Variation in critical care services across North America and Western Europe* (2008, background): “Life expectancy in developed countries continues to increase, and many countries have rapidly aging populations, potentially placing a greater demand on medical services overall, and critical care in particular (6, 7).”
Nurse-physician perspectives on the care of dying patients in intensive care units: Collaboration, moral distress, and ethical climate* (2007, background): “To look at it from another direction, one recent study suggested that approximately 20% of people in the United States die during or shortly after an ICU stay (6).”