From the Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice (EBC, MZS), Education Development Center, Newton, MA; the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care (JRC), University of Washington, Seattle, WA; the University of California, San Francisco (JML), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital; Brown University (ML), Rhode Island Hospital; the Department of Clinical Bioethics (MD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (JN), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
*See also p. 2399.
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Providing intensive care unit clinicians and hospital administrators with recognized end-of-life care criteria, goals, or quality indicators so that they can analyze, measure, monitor, and continuously improve end-of-life care in their own intensive care units is an important goal.
