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ICU Organization and Ethics

1988 - 1998

The period 1988–1998 saw critical-care research coalescing around the formal organization of ICUs, with cross-national variation in admission practices, governance structures, and evolving roles for intensivists and nurse practitioners that shaped care delivery and cost. End-of-life decision making gained prominence as patient autonomy and family engagement guided withholding and withdrawal of life support, while prognostication and triage research informed admission criteria and monitoring decisions. Parallel work on education and workforce development underpinned clinical practice standards and preparedness in a rapidly expanding field.

• End-of-life decisions in critical care emphasize patient autonomy and family engagement, increasingly focusing on withholding/withdrawal of life support and ethical deliberation across domestic and international ICUs. [1] [6] [15] [4] [2] [14]

• Organizational aspects of ICU care show cross-national variation in admission practices, governance panel deliberations, and evolving roles (intensivists and nurse practitioners) shaping cost and care delivery. [5] [13] [17] [18] [11] [10] [20]

• Prognostication and triage are studied via pneumonia severity, ICU admission determinants, and invasive monitoring's impact on outcomes. [3] [16] [7]

• Nosocomial infection epidemiology in ICUs is addressed through European prevalence studies assessing infection rates and mortality associations. [8] [9]

• Education, professional development, and resources for critical care, including nurse practitioners, textbooks, and training programs, underpin clinical practice and workforce planning. [18] [10] [20]

Popular Keywords

critical care management

critical emergency medicine

[1]

Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill

1990 • acute care, critical care management, critical emergency medicine, intensive care unit, outcomes research, patient safety, primary care

[2]

The needs of family members of patients in intensive care units

1989 • acute care, critical emergency medicine, patient safety, primary care

[3]

Community-acquired pneumonia of diverse aetiology: prognostic features in patients admitted to an intensive care unit and a ?severity of illness? score

1989 • acute care, intensive care unit

[4]

Reaching out… To meet the needs of relatives in intensive care units

1988 • acute care, patient safety, primary care

[5]

Patient selection for intensive care

1988 • acute care, health services research, outcomes research, patient safety, sepsis

[6]

Increasing incidence of withholding and withdrawal of life support from the critically ill.

1997 • acute care, critical care management, critical emergency medicine, outcomes research, patient safety, primary care

[7]

The Effectiveness of Right Heart Catheterization in the Initial Care of Critically III Patients

1996 • acute care, critical care management, intensive care unit, outcomes research, patient safety

[8]

The Prevalence of Nosocomial Infection in Intensive Care Units in Europe

1995 • acute care, critical care management, intensive care unit, patient safety, pediatric intensive care, sepsis

[9]

The prevalence of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe. Results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) Study. EPIC International Advisory Committee

1995 • acute care, critical care management, intensive care unit, patient safety, pediatric intensive care

[10]

Principles and Practice of Medical Intensive Care

1994 • acute care, critical care management, critical emergency medicine, patient safety, pediatric intensive care, sepsis

[11]

Cost containment: the pediatric perspective.

1994 • health services research, outcomes research, patient safety, pediatric intensive care

[12]

Use of Sedating Drugs and Neuromuscular Blocking Agents in Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation for Respiratory Failure. A National Survey

1992 • critical emergency medicine, patient safety

[13]

Intensive care in the United Kingdom: Report from the King's Fund Panel

1989 • acute care, critical care management, critical emergency medicine, patient safety, sepsis

[14]

Relatives: critical support in critical care.

1989 • patient safety

[15]

Ruark JE, Raffin TA, and the Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics. Initiating and withdrawing life support. New England Journal of Medicine 1988;318(1)

1988 • acute care, patient safety

[16]

Community-acquired pneumonia--factors influencing intensive care admission.

1988 • acute care, intensive care unit, patient safety, sepsis

[17]

Impact of critical care physician staffing on patients with septic shock in a university hospital medical intensive care unit

1988 • acute care, critical care management, outcomes research, patient safety, sepsis

[18]

The Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

1996 • acute care, critical emergency medicine, health services research, outcomes research, patient safety, primary care

[19]

Variability in duration of stay in pediatric intensive care units: A multiinstitutional study

1996 • acute care, patient safety, pediatric intensive care

[20]

Textbook of Critical Care

1996 • acute care, critical care management, critical emergency medicine, patient safety, sepsis

Resource-Constrained Critical Care

1999 - 2005

Integrated Critical Care Delivery

2006 - 2012

Critical Care System Design

2013 - 2019

Pandemic Critical Care Governance

2020 - 2022