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Proportion of inpatient death occurring in medical Intensive Care Units (ICU) between 2001 and 2009. A high proportion of patients without a palliative care consultation died in the ICU, and this continues to increase. In contrast, the percentage of medical ICU death stayed consistently low among patients with a palliative care consultation.
