• Critical care clinics · Jan 1988

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    Admitting cancer patients to the intensive care unit.

    • G C Carlon.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
    • Crit Care Clin. 1988 Jan 1;4(1):183-91.

    AbstractThe allocation of critical care resources must follow criteria of distributive justice. Because most societies cannot indefinitely expand medical care costs, difficult decisions on the quality and quantity of care that can be rendered to each patient are inevitable. Data on which objective decisions can be based are currently being gathered at many levels. It is reasonable to anticipate that over the next few years regulations will be formulated to decide which patients can be admitted to the ICU. Critical care physicians have the right and obligation to be involved in all aspects of these decision-making processes.

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