title: Classification of critically ill patients: a legal examination.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fama
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D016638:Critical Illness; D003643:Death; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008020:Life Support Care; D016134:Organizational Policy; D005791:Patient Care; D018579:Patient Selection; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D013219:State Government; D019452:Terminally Ill; D028761:Withholding Treatment