DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 04 · Volume 33 · August 2012 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-23566 Intersection of Outcomes, Ethics, and Economics in Critical Care Guest Editors, Constantine A. Manthous, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P., Douglas B. White, M.D., M.A.S., and Shannon S. Carson, M.D.

Preface

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Manthous, Constantine A.; White, Douglas B.; Carson, Shannon S.: Intersection of Outcomes, Ethics, and Economics in Critical Care

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Iwashyna, Theodore J.; Netzer, Giora: The Burdens of Survivorship: An Approach to Thinking about Long-Term Outcomes after Critical Illness
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Kress, John P.; Herridge, Margaret S.: Medical and Economic Implications of Physical Disability of Survivorship
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Hopkins, Ramona O.; Girard, Timothy D.: Medical and Economic Implications of Cognitive and Psychiatric Disability of Survivorship
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Cox, Christopher E.; Carson, Shannon S.: Medical and Economic Implications of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation and Expedited Post–Acute Care
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Zilberberg, Marya D.; Shorr, Andrew F.: Economics at the End of Life: Hospital and ICU Perspectives
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Hyzy, Robert; Posa, Pat; Scales, Damon C.: System-Level Quality Improvement Initiatives: Lessons from Keystone and Other Large-Scale Projects
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Kahn, Jeremy M.: Quality Improvement in End-of-Life Critical Care
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Siegel, Mark D.; Stapleton, Renee; Wunsch, Hannah: The Ethical and Economic Impact of Defaults
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Halpern, Scott D.: Shaping End-of-Life Care: Behavioral Economics and Advance Directives
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Howell, Michael D.: Intensivist Time Allocation: Economic and Ethical Issues Surrounding How Intensivists Use Their Time
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Rubenfeld, Gordon D.: Cost-Effective Critical Care: Cost Containment and Rationing
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Scheunemann, Leslie P.; White, Douglas B.: The Physician as Rationer: Uncertainty about the Physician's Role Obligations
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Manthous, Constantine A.; White, Douglas B.; Carson, Shannon S.: The Brave New World Revealed: Wrestling with Reality, Rationing, and Rationality