An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on June 01, 2015

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Gabriel T Bosslet, Thaddeus M Pope, Gordon D Rubenfeld, Bernard Lo, Robert D Truog, Cynda H Rushton, J Randall Curtis, Dee W Ford, Molly Osborne, Cheryl Misak, David H Au, Elie Azoulay, Baruch Brody, Brenda G Fahy, Jesse B Hall, Jozef Kesecioglu, Alexander A Kon, Kathleen O Lindell, Douglas B White, American Thoracic Society ad hoc Committee on Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment, American Thoracic Society, American Association for Critical Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, Society of Critical Care

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