title: Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for patients with terminal respiratory failure: the ethical and economic costs of delaying the inevitable are too great.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Raffin
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000191:economics; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000191:economics; D028761:Withholding Treatment