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Knowledge and Practice of Medical Futility by Intensive Care Professionals
Revista Latinoamericana de BioéticaRecent technical and scientific advances in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have introduced new ethical challenges for health professionals, particularly concerning the practice of medical futility. This study aimed to assess ICU professionals’ knowledge of
Sara Fernanda Hilgert +2 more
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Statistics, ethics, and probiotica
, 2008 A randomized clinical trial comparing an experimental new treatment to a standard therapy for a life-threatening medical condition should be stopped early on ethical grounds, in either of the following scenarios: (1) it has become overwhelmingly clear ...
Gill, Richard D.
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Medical futility, from theory to practice [PDF]
, 2015 O conceito de futilidade médica é tão antigo quanto a Medicina mas, a partir dos anos 50 do século passado, com o desenvolvimento tecnológico e a substituição do paternalismo médico pela autonomia do doente, surge como uma categoria que os profissionais ...
Freire, E.
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Potentially Inappropriate Admissions to the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2019 Background Admission of patients perceived as potentially inappropriate for intensive care is a very sensitive and controversial issue. We aimed to evaluate the use of medical resources in the intensive care unit (ICU) and outcomes of patients according ...
Sooim Sin, Sang-Min Lee, Jinwoo Lee
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Group sequential designs for negative binomial outcomes
, 2018 Count data and recurrent events in clinical trials, such as the number of lesions in magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis, the number of relapses in multiple sclerosis, the number of hospitalizations in heart failure, and the number of ...
Friede, Tim +3 more
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Estimation of Conditional Power for Cluster-Randomized Trials with Interval-Censored Endpoints [PDF]
, 2020 Cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) of infectious disease preventions often yield correlated, interval-censored data: dependencies may exist between observations from the same cluster, and event occurrence may be assessed only at intermittent clinic visits.
Hayes R.J. +4 more
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Effects of dalcetrapib in patients with a recent acute coronary syndrome [PDF]
, 2012 In observational analyses, higher levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol have been associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease events.
Abt, Markus +18 more
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Factors Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes in the Elderly in Taiwan
International Journal of Gerontology, 2009 Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can save countless lives, but its use is rather controversial in elderly patients. Some researchers believe that there is an inverse ratio between the success of CPR and the age of the patient, while others ...
Wen-Han Chang +5 more
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Developing a tool for evaluation of causes of futile care in intensive care units
Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2019 Background: In Iran, futile care has become a challenge for intensive care nurses. The aim of the study was to develop a tool for assessing the reasons of futile care at intensive care units (ICUs).
Leili Yekefallah +3 more
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Research studies suggest that mental health nurses hold negative attitudes towards patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
C. Papathanasiou, S. Stylianidis
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