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Time-limited trial of intensive care treatment: an overview of current literature

Overview of attention for article published in Intensive Care Medicine, August 2018
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Title
Time-limited trial of intensive care treatment: an overview of current literature
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine, August 2018
DOI 10.1007/s00134-018-5339-x
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Authors

Eva E. Vink, Elie Azoulay, Arthur Caplan, Erwin J. O. Kompanje, Jan Bakker

Abstract

In critically ill patients, it is frequently challenging to identify who will benefit from admission to the intensive care unit and life-sustaining interventions when the chances of a meaningful outcome are unclear. In addition, the acute illness not only affects the patients but also family members or surrogates who often are overwhelmed and unable to make thoughtful decisions. In these circumstances, a time-limited trial (TLT) of intensive care treatment can be helpful. A TLT is an agreement to initiate all necessary treatments or treatments with clearly delineated limitations for a certain period of time to gain a more realistic understanding of the patient's chances of a meaningful recovery or to ascertain the patient's wishes and values. In this article, we discuss current research on different aspects of TLTs in the intensive care unit. We propose how and when to use TLTs, discuss how much time should be taken for a TLT, give an overview of the potential impact of TLTs on healthcare resources, describe ethical challenges concerning TLTs, and discuss how to evaluate a TLT.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 93 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 16%
Student > Master 11 12%
Other 10 11%
Student > Postgraduate 7 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 8%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 25 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 43 46%
Computer Science 2 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 30 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 December 2023.
All research outputs
#1,395,184
of 25,593,129 outputs
Outputs from Intensive Care Medicine
#1,232
of 5,443 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,784
of 342,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Intensive Care Medicine
#24
of 106 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,593,129 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,443 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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