Chest
CorrespondenceThe Language of Goals of Care: Framing Preferences at the End of Life
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To the Editor
We were pleased to learn about the efforts of Gehlbach et al1 in “Code Status Orders and Goals of Care in the Medical ICU.” We applaud the questions posed by this contribution to CHEST (April 2011), and feel the authors' framing of these issues raises interesting points for further discussion.
One consideration relates to the decision to combine patients and surrogates into a single population, “patients/surrogates.” While we acknowledge the critical care setting frequently necessitates
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