title: Multi-professional recommendations for access and utilization of critical care services: towards consistency in practice and ethical decision-making processes.
abstract: Multiprofessional guidelines for fair access to and use of adult critical care services are desperately needed to define a consistent transparent standard of care: when such therapies have the potential to benefit and help a patient as they journey with illness and when they cannot.
authors.affiliation: University Health Network, University of Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hawryluck
authors.forename: Redouane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bouali
authors.forename: Nathalie Danjoux
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Meth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003422:Critical Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018447:Medical Futility; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States