Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Asia

Phua J 1 , Joynt GM 2 , Nishimura M 3 , Deng Y 4 , Myatra SN 5 , Chan YH 6 Show all authors , Binh NG 7 , Tan CC 8 , Faruq MO 9 , Arabi YM 10 , Wahjuprajitno B 11 , Liu SF 12 , Hashemian SM 13 , Kashif W 14 , Staworn D 15 , Palo JE 16 , Koh Y 17 , ACME Study Investigators and the Asian Critical Care Clinical Trials Group

Affiliations 

  • 1 Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore
  • 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China
  • 3 Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
  • 4 Intensive Care Unit, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
  • 5 Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
  • 6 Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 7 Intensive Care Department, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 8 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Sultanah Aminah Hospital, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
  • 9 Department of Critical Care Medicine, BIRDEM General Hospital, Ibrahim Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 10 Intensive Care Department, Kian Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 11 Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, University of Airlangga, Dr Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
  • 12 Department of Respiratory Therapy, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 13 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 14 Section of Nephrology, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University and Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 15 Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 16 Section of Adult Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Medical City, Pasig City, Philippines
  • 17 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
JAMA Intern Med, 2015 Mar;175(3):363-71.
PMID: 25581712 DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7386

Abstract

Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in Asia.

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