title: Treating the silent stranger: informed consent and defensive medicine in the critical care unit.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: De Ville
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003675:Defensive Medicine; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000592:standards; D017041:Ethics Committees; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D016743:Mental Competency; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States