Time-Limited Trials in the ICU: Seeing the Forest Beyond the Bark and Trees.

Crit Care Med

Palliative Care Program, Department of Oncology, Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

Published: December 2015

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