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Epidemiology of Death in the PICU at Five U.S. Teaching Hospitals

Jeffrey P. Burns, Deborah E. Sellers, Elaine C. Meyer, Mithya Lewis-Newby, Robert D. Truog Crit Care Med, 2014, 42(9);2101-2108

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This prospective multi-centre observational study aims to provide systematic data describing end of life care in children who died in ICUs in the US. In 5 US PICUs, observed for 12-months, there were 9516 admissions, with an ICU mortality rate of 2.39%.The median age was 2.0 years, 2/3 occurred...


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