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For patients with chronic, life-limiting illness, deterioration in health can result in admission to the ICU, with the goal of restoration of health back to or near their prior quality of life. Among patients with cancer, the outcomes of increased financial distress and decreased health-related quality of life are strongly correlated, indicating that financial toxicity is a clinically relevant patient-centered outcome [[8]]. There is a complex relationship at play between critical illness, the need for high-intensity care, family and patient financial stress, and important patient- and family centered outcomes (Fig. 1 Conceptual model demonstrating the complex relationship between critical illness, the need for high-intensity care, family and patient financial stress, and important patient- and family-centered outcomes. [Extracted from the article] |
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