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SCCM Pod-217 CCM: Trends in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the ICU

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6/12/2013

Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, to discuss the article, “Hospital Variation and Temporal Trends in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the ICU,” which was published in the July issue of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Curtis and his co-investigators found that there is significant variability in how palliative and end-of-life care is delivered hospital to hospital. Dr. Curtis is a professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

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Knowledge Area: Ethics End of Life