Consensus statement of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Ethics Committee regarding futile and other possibly inadvisable treatments.

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Clinical nihilism in neuroemergencies. Emerg Med Clin North Am (2009) 1.20

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Probability of mortality of critically ill cancer patients at 72 h of intensive care unit (ICU) management. Support Care Cancer (2003) 0.90

Prolonging life and delaying death: the role of physicians in the context of limited intensive care resources. Philos Ethics Humanit Med (2009) 0.88

When doctors and patients disagree about medical futility. J Oncol Pract (2008) 0.88

Futility: what Cool Hand Luke can teach the surgical community. World J Surg (2009) 0.84

If we think it's futile, can't we just say no? HEC Forum (2007) 0.82

External validation of the simple clinical score and the HOTEL score, two scores for predicting short-term mortality after admission to an acute medical unit. PLoS One (2014) 0.81

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Medical futility and its challenges: a review study. J Med Ethics Hist Med (2016) 0.78

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The sound of silence: rationing resources for critically ill patients. Crit Care (1999) 0.77

Perceptions of patients on the utility or futility of end-of-life treatment. J Med Ethics (2006) 0.77

Care of terminally-ill patients: an opinion survey among critical care healthcare providers in the Middle East. Afr Health Sci (2013) 0.76

Is futile care in the injured elderly an important target for cost savings? J Trauma Acute Care Surg (2012) 0.75

Sepsis-related organ failure assessment and withholding or withdrawing life support from critically ill patients. Crit Care (1998) 0.75

Ethics roundtable debate: child with severe brain damage and an underlying brain tumour. Crit Care (2004) 0.75

Seven-day mortality can be predicted in medical patients by blood pressure, age, respiratory rate, loss of independence, and peripheral oxygen saturation (the PARIS score): a prospective cohort study with external validation. PLoS One (2015) 0.75

Identifying critically ill patients with acute kidney injury for whom renal replacement therapy is inappropriate: an exercise in futility? NDT Plus (2008) 0.75

Advance directives in the trauma intensive care unit: Do they really matter? Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci (2011) 0.75

Do physicians disclose uncertainty when discussing prognosis in grave critical illness? Narrat Inq Bioeth (2012) 0.75

Awareness and use of recommendations for withholding and withdrawing therapy in Austrian intensive care units. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.75

The fiction of futility: what to do with policy? HEC Forum (2005) 0.75

CHILDREN WITH MULTIPLE CONGENITAL DEFECTS: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS BETWEEN THERAPEUTIC OBSTINACY AND THE TREATMENT OF UNCERTAIN BENEFIT? Rev Paul Pediatr (2017) 0.75