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Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation
Critical Care Medicine, 10/23/09

Cox CE et al. – One–year patient outcomes for prolonged mechanical ventilation patients were significantly worse than expected by patients' surrogates and physicians. Lack of prognostication about outcomes, discordance between surrogates and physicians about potential outcomes, and surrogates' unreasonably optimistic expectations seem to be potentially modifiable deficiencies in surrogate–physician interactions.

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