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Palliative care in the ICU of 2050: past is prologue

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  1. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1232, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Kusum S. Mathews

  2. Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Judith E. Nelson

  3. Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Judith E. Nelson

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KSM receives support from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Award: 1K23HL130648-PI: Mathews).

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Mathews, K.S., Nelson, J.E. Palliative care in the ICU of 2050: past is prologue. Intensive Care Med 43, 1850–1852 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4828-7

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