Who should get pediatric intensive care when not all can? A call for international guidelines on allocation of pediatric intensive care resources*.

Pediatr Crit Care Med

Division of Critical Care Medicine, The University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada Division of Critical Care Medicine, Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Published: January 2014

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