Health Care Insider: Examining the Differences in End-of-Life Care Between Hospitals

Summary: Different hospitals treat end-of-life patients differently, which fascinates Dr. Amber Barnato. She asks several questions concerning this: Does the prolific use of ICU procedures coincide with patient wishes? What drives one hospital to use an iron lung to keep a patient alive at all costs, while another one almost never uses intensive care procedures on the terminally ill? She goes where no researcher has gone before and shares her findings.