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Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute Care Settings

Overview of attention for article published in AMA Journal of Ethics, August 2018
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Title
Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute Care Settings
Published in
AMA Journal of Ethics, August 2018
DOI 10.1001/amajethics.2018.732
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Abstract

"Clinical momentum" refers to the curious expansion of interventions applied to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) without pause or design, leading to extensions of care that can violate patient wishes and distress clinicians. In this article, clinical momentum is placed in a wider context that includes ritual, reimbursement patterns, and actor network theory. These contextual features help motivate understanding of one way in which dying patients are underserved in intensive care settings. Suggestions are made for clinician interaction with families under these circumstances.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 3 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Master 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 11%
Researcher 2 11%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 5 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 6 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 28%
Computer Science 1 6%
Unknown 6 33%