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Organisation and Management of Intensive Care - A Prospective Study in 12 European Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Organisation and Management of Intensive Care - A Prospective Study in 12 European Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 29
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From the viewpoint of a health economist, the intensive care unit
(leU) is a particularly fascinating phenomenon. It is the epitome
of "high-tech" medicine and frequently portrayed as the place where
life-saving miracles are routinely wrought. But the popular imagina
tion is also caught up in the darker side, when agonizing decisions
have to be made to avoid futile and inhuman continuation of expen
sive treatments. My analytical interests led me to approach these
issues by asking what the evidence tells us about which leu
activities are very bene ficial in relationship to their costs and
which are not. This quickly translates into a slightly different
question, namely, which patients are most appropriately treated in
an leu and which not. Unfor tunately, it is very hard to answer
these questions because it has pro ved very difficult to
investigate these issues in the manner which is now regarded as the
"gold standard: ' namely by conducting rando mized clinical trials
or alternative courses of action. I think this is a pity, and I am
not at all convinced that it would be unethical to do so in many
cases, because there is wide variation in practice and ge nuine
doubt as to which practices are best -the two conditions that need
to be fulfilled before such a trial is justifiable."
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