De-implementing low value care in critically ill patients: a call for action-less is more

Intensive Care Med. 2019 Oct;45(10):1443-1446. doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05694-y. Epub 2019 Aug 8.

Henry T Stelfox^{1

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¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, McCaig Tower, University of Calgary, 3134 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 5A1, Canada. tstelfox@ucalgary.ca.
² Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. tstelfox@ucalgary.ca.
³ O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. tstelfox@ucalgary.ca.
⁴ Alberta Health Services, Alberta, Canada. tstelfox@ucalgary.ca.
⁵ College of Nursing, Academic Health Sciences Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁶ Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁷ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, McCaig Tower, University of Calgary, 3134 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 5A1, Canada.
⁸ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
⁹ O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
¹⁰ Alberta Health Services, Alberta, Canada.

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Keywords: Critical care; De-implementation; Health services research; Information science; Intensive care units; Quality of health care.

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