End-of-life considerations in the ICU in Japan: ethical and legal perspectives

Table 1 International comparison of the ratio of physicians to patients and the number of ICU beds

Country	Ratio of physicians to patients (per 1,000 population)[2]	Number of ICU beds (per 100,000 population)[4, 5]
Germany	3.7	24.6
France	3.3	9.3
England	2.7	3.3
USA	2.4	20
Canada	2.4	13.5
Japan	2.2	4 to 5

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