"it's not just what the doctor tells me:" Factors that influence surrogate decision-makers' perceptions of prognosis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1270-1275

  Boyd, Elizabeth A ^a   Lo, Bernard ^b   Evans, Leah R ^c   Malvar, Grace ^c   Apatira, Latifat ^d   Luce, John M ^e   White, Douglas B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Program in Medical Ethics   (United States)

^c Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHARACTER; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; FITNESS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; LIFE HISTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPTIMISM; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROXY; RELIGION;

EID: 77951620115     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d8a217     Document Type: Article

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