TY - JOUR AU - Quenot, Jean-Pierre AU - Ecarnot, Fiona AU - Meunier-Beillard, Nicolas AU - Dargent, Auguste AU - Large, Audrey AU - Andreu, Pascal AU - Rigaud, Jean-Philippe PY - 2016 TI - Intensive care unit strain should not rush physicians into making inappropriate decisions, but merely reduce the time to the right decisions being made JF - Annals of Translational Medicine; Vol 4, No 16 (August 29, 2016): Annals of Translational Medicine Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - Deaths in the intensive care unit (ICU) are preceded in 53% to 90% of cases by a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies (1-3). The most common reasons justifying this decision include the patient’s age, previous autonomy, comorbidities, expected future quality of life, diagnosis at admission, non-response to maximal therapy and multi-organ failure (1,3,4). UR - https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/11188