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

  • 325
    Manthous, Constantine A.; White, Douglas B.; Carson, Shannon S.:

    Intersection of Outcomes, Ethics, and Economics in Critical Care

  • 327
    Iwashyna, Theodore J.; Netzer, Giora:

    The Burdens of Survivorship: An Approach to Thinking about Long-Term Outcomes after Critical Illness

  • 339
    Kress, John P.; Herridge, Margaret S.:

    Medical and Economic Implications of Physical Disability of Survivorship

  • 348
    Hopkins, Ramona O.; Girard, Timothy D.:

    Medical and Economic Implications of Cognitive and Psychiatric Disability of Survivorship

  • 357
    Cox, Christopher E.; Carson, Shannon S.:

    Medical and Economic Implications of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation and Expedited Post–Acute Care

  • 362
    Zilberberg, Marya D.; Shorr, Andrew F.:

    Economics at the End of Life: Hospital and ICU Perspectives

  • 370
    Hyzy, Robert; Posa, Pat; Scales, Damon C.:

    System-Level Quality Improvement Initiatives: Lessons from Keystone and Other Large-Scale Projects

  • 375
    Kahn, Jeremy M.:

    Quality Improvement in End-of-Life Critical Care

  • 382
    Siegel, Mark D.; Stapleton, Renee; Wunsch, Hannah:

    The Ethical and Economic Impact of Defaults

  • 393
    Halpern, Scott D.:

    Shaping End-of-Life Care: Behavioral Economics and Advance Directives

  • 401
    Howell, Michael D.:

    Intensivist Time Allocation: Economic and Ethical Issues Surrounding How Intensivists Use Their Time

  • 413
    Rubenfeld, Gordon D.:

    Cost-Effective Critical Care: Cost Containment and Rationing

  • 421
    Scheunemann, Leslie P.; White, Douglas B.:

    The Physician as Rationer: Uncertainty about the Physician's Role Obligations

  • 427
    Manthous, Constantine A.; White, Douglas B.; Carson, Shannon S.:

    The Brave New World Revealed: Wrestling with Reality, Rationing, and Rationality