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| T J PrendergastSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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A national survey of end-of-life care for critically ill patientsT J Prendergast
Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 158:1163-7. 1998..There is wide variation in end-of-life care, and efforts are needed to understand practice patterns and to establish standards of care for patients dying in ICUs...
Withdrawal of life support: intensive caring at the end of lifeThomas J Prendergast
Departments of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 3D, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
JAMA 288:2732-40. 2002..This shift from individual responsibility to patient-focused consensus often permits the family to understand, perhaps reluctantly and with great sadness, that intensive caring may involve letting go of life-sustaining interventions...
Advance care planning: pitfalls, progress, promiseT J Prendergast
Dartmouth Medical School, Pulmonary Section (3D, Lebanon, NH, USA
Crit Care Med 29:N34-9. 2001..The approach that emphasizes communication, building trust over time, and working within the patient's most important relationships offers a hopeful model for clinicians working in intensive care units...
Life support for patients without a surrogate decision maker: who decides?Douglas B White
University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California 94143 0903, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:34-40. 2007..Physicians in intensive care units have withdrawn life support in incapacitated patients who lack surrogate decision makers and advance directives, yet little is known about how often this occurs or under what circumstances...
An official American Thoracic Society clinical policy statement: palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases and critical illnessesPaul N Lanken
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:912-27. 2008
