ReviewJournal of the Intensive Care Society2018
Decision-making in intensive care medicine - A review.
Review in Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
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33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Decades of intensive care medicine trials: what randomised evidence has changed, corrected, and still questions to resolve.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Timing matters: sex differences in treatment limitation decisions in intensive care.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Decision-making for ICU admission: is there a place for AI? Exploring and understanding meaning, experiences, and perspectives.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Determinants of ICU Admission Care Limitation in Patients Younger Than 65 Years: A Prospective, Observational, Multicenter Study.Critical care explorations · 2026Observational
- The Challenges of Prognosticating Persistent Critical Illness: A Qualitative Study.CHEST critical care · 2026Article
- Voices from the ICU: a qualitative study of healthcare providers' decision-making experiences during the provision of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units of public and private referral hospitals in Uganda.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
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- Age and grit in prioritising intensive care: - a mixed-methods approach of normative challenges.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Heterogeneity in Responding to Clinical Vignettes Depicting Sepsis Suggests That Non-Medical Data May Drive the Decision-Making Process.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Priority setting in critical care: a multicriteria approach to ranking access to Intensive Care Unit beds.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Augmenting intensive care unit nursing practice with generative AI: A formative study of diagnostic synergies using simulation-based clinical cases.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- A large language model improves clinicians' diagnostic performance in complex critical illness cases.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- Healthcare providers' perspectives on factors influencing their critical care decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international pilot survey.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative evaluation and performance of large language models on expert level critical care questions: a benchmark study.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- The Effect of Clinical Ambiguity on the Decision-Making Process Among Intensive Care Unit Providers in Northern America Using Clinical Vignettes in Mixed Methods Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Exploring the impact of age on the predictive power of the National Early Warning score (NEWS) 2, and long-term prognosis among patients reviewed by a Rapid Response Team: A prospective, multi-centre study.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Factors Impacting Readiness to Perform Secondary Population-Based Triage During the Second Wave of COVID-19 in Victoria, Australia: Pilot Study.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2023Article
- Cognitive biases and moral characteristics of healthcare workers and their treatment approach for persons with advanced dementia in acute care settings.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- The use of cognitive task analysis in clinical and health services research - a systematic review.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Review
- Perceived stress and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among intensive care unit staff caring for severely ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients during the pandemic: a national study.Annals of general psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Decision-making by intensivists around accepting patients to intensive care units is a complex area, with often high-stakes, difficult, emotive decisions being made with limited patient information, high uncertainty about outcomes and extreme pressure to make these decisions quickly. This is exacerbated by a lack of clear guidelines to help guide this difficult decision-making process, with the onus largely relying on clinical experience and judgement. In addition to uncertainty compounding decision-making at the individual clinical level, it is further complicated at the multi-speciality level for the senior doctors and surgeons
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