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Accept or divert ICU patients? A heated ethical debate
1Queen of Peace Hospital, New Prague, Minn., USA.
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing : DCCN
|May 10, 2002
Abstract:
Stretching scarce resources is more than a managerial issue. Should an understaffed ICU accept the patient or divert him to another facility? The intense "medical utility" controversy focuses on a situation that critical care nurses now face every day.