Caring for the critically ill patient. Current and projected workforce requirements for care of the critically ill and patients with pulmonary disease: can we meet the requirements of an aging…

By Derek C. Angus, M. Kelley, R. Schmitz, A. White, J. Popovich. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2000

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Critical care workforce* (2008, background): “Neither the HRSA report nor the earlier COMPACCS study seems to have changed our complacency.”
Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study* (2004, background): “Decisions about resource allocation (9) and strategies for incorporating palliation into the care of critically ill patients (10) require information about existing patterns of ICU use at the end of life.”
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