• Critical care clinics · Jul 2001

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    End-of-life decisions in cancer care.

    • K J Price and S K Kish.
    • Department of Critical Care, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. kjprice@mdanderson.org
    • Crit Care Clin. 2001 Jul 1; 17 (3): 805-11.

    AbstractEnd-of-life decisions in critically ill patients with cancer are often complex and fraught with emotion. End-of-life care involves a multidisciplinary approach that takes into account the patient and family's desires and the goals of therapy. Decisions regarding the use of life-support technology at the end of life encompass an outcomes and goal-oriented approach. Ethical, medical, legal, and economic issues should be considered in the assessment of life-support technologies and directives for their appropriate use in the ICU.

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