Perspectives of physicians and nurses regarding end-of-life care in the intensive care unit

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-54

  Festic, Emir ^a   Wilson, Michael E ^b   Gajic, Ognjen ^b   Divertie, Gavin D ^a   Rabatin, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

attitude of health personnel; end of life; intensive care unit; nurse; physician

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; TERMINAL CARE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MINNESOTA; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84863420924     PISSN: 08850666     EISSN: 15251489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885066610393465     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Angus DC, Barnato AE, Linde-Zwirble WT, et al. Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: an epidemiologic study [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2004 ; 32 (3). 638-643 (Pubitemid 38340056)
2. Truog RD, Campbell ML, Curtis JR, et al. Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College [corrected] of Critical Care Medicine [erratum appears in Crit Care Med. 2008;36(5):1699]. Crit Care Med. 2008 ; 36 (3). 953-963
3. Baggs JG. Collaborative interdisciplinary bioethical decision making in intensive care units [see comment]. Nurs Outlook. 1993 ; 41 (3). 108-112
4. Baggs JG, Norton SA, Schmitt MH, Sellers CR. The dying patient in the ICU: role of the interdisciplinary team. Crit Care Clin. 2004 ; 20 (3). 525-540 (Pubitemid 38748490)
5. Ciccarello GP. Strategies to improve end-of-life care in the intensive care unit. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2003 ; 22 (5). 216-222
6. Curtis JR. Communicating about end-of-life care with patients and families in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Clin. 2004 ; 20 (3). 363-380 (Pubitemid 38748481)
7. Thomas EJ, Sexton JB, Helmreich RL. Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physicians [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 31 (3). 956-959 (Pubitemid 36379610)
8. Levy CR, Ely EW, Payne K, Engelberg RA, Patrick DL, Curtis JR. Quality of dying and death in two medical ICUs: perceptions of family and clinicians. Chest. 2005 ; 127 (5). 1775-1783 (Pubitemid 46218807)
9. Ferrand E, Lemaire F, Regnier B, et al. Discrepancies between perceptions by physicians and nursing staff of intensive care unit end-of-life decisions [see comment]. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 167 (10). 1310-1315 (Pubitemid 36609712)
10. Hamric AB, Blackhall LJ. Nurse-physician perspectives on the care of dying patients in intensive care units: collaboration, moral distress, and ethical climate [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2007 ; 35 (2). 422-429 (Pubitemid 46148531)
11. Westphal DM, McKee SA. End-of-life decision making in the intensive care unit: physician and nurse perspectives. Am J Med Qual. 2009 ; 24 (3). 222-228
12. Shannon SE, Mitchell PH, Cain KC. Patients, nurses, and physicians have differing views of quality of critical care. J Nurs Sch. 2002 ; 34 (2). 173-179 (Pubitemid 41719887)
13. Faber-Langendoen K. The clinical management of dying patients receiving mechanical ventilation. A survey of physician practice [see comment]. Chest. 1994 ; 106 (3). 880-888 (Pubitemid 24278899)
14. Cook DJ, Guyatt GH, Jaeschke R, et al. Determinants in Canadian health care workers of the decision to withdraw life support from the critically ill. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group [see comment]. JAMA. 1995 ; 273 (9). 703-708
15. Christakis NA, Asch DA. Biases in how physicians choose to withdraw life support. Lancet. 1993 ; 342 (8872). 642-646 (Pubitemid 23271504)
16. Cox CE, Martinu T, Sathy SJ, et al. Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Crit Care Med. 2009 ; 37 (11). 2888-2894
17. White DB, Engelberg RA, Wenrich MD, Lo B, Curtis JR. Prognostication during physician-family discussions about limiting life support in intensive care units [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2007 ; 35 (2). 442-448 (Pubitemid 46148534)
18. Uhlmann RF, Pearlman RA. Perceived quality of life and preferences for life-sustaining treatment in older adults. Arch Intern Med. 1991 ; 151 (3). 495-497
19. Curtis JR, Engelberg RA. Measuring success of interventions to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2006 ; 34 (11 suppl). S341 - S347
20. Azoulay E, Pochard F, Chevret S, et al. Meeting the needs of intensive care unit patient families: a multicenter study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2001 ; 163 (1). 135-139 (Pubitemid 32095263)
21. Azoulay E, Pochard F, Chevret S, et al. Half the family members of intensive care unit patients do not want to share in the decision-making process: a study in 78 French intensive care units [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2004 ; 32 (9). 1832-1838 (Pubitemid 39202357)
22. Benner P. From novice to expert. Am J Nurs. 1982 ; 82 (3). 402-407
23. Malloy DC, Hadjistavropoulos T, McCarthy EF, et al. Culture and organizational climate: nurses' insights into their relationship with physicians. Nurs Ethics. 2009 ; 16 (6). 719-733
24. Frick S, Uehlinger DE, Zuercher Zenklusen RM. Medical futility: predicting outcome of intensive care unit patients by nurses and doctors-a prospective comparative study. Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 31 (2). 456-461 (Pubitemid 36232940)
25. Clarke EB, Curtis JR, Luce JM, et al. Quality indicators for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 31 (9). 2255-2262 (Pubitemid 37100826)
26. Levin PD, Sprung CL. Cultural differences at the end of life. Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 31 (5 suppl). S354 - S357
27. Daaleman TP, VandeCreek L. Placing religion and spirituality in end-of-life care. JAMA. 2000 ; 284 (19). 2514-2517
28. Crawley LM, Marshall PA, Lo B, Koenig BA. Strategies for culturally effective end-of-life care. Ann Intern Med. 2002 ; 136 (9). 673-679 (Pubitemid 34462680)
29. Bucknall T, Thomas S. Nurses' reflections on problems associated with decision-making in critical care settings. J Adv Nurs. 1997 ; 25 (2). 229-237 (Pubitemid 127453310)
30. Cardoso T, Fonseca T, Pereira S, Lencastre L. Life-sustaining treatment decisions in Portuguese intensive care units: a national survey of intensive care physicians. Crit Care. 2003 ; 7 (6). R167 - R175
31. Kirchhoff KT, Beckstrand RL. Critical care nurses' perceptions of obstacles and helpful behaviors in providing end-of-life care to dying patients. Am J Crit Care. 2000 ; 9 (2). 96-105
32. Beckstrand RL, Kirchhoff KT. Providing end-of-life care to patients: critical care nurses' perceived obstacles and supportive behaviors. Am J Crit Care. 2005 ; 14 (5). 395-403 (Pubitemid 41330053)
33. Kirchhoff KT, Spuhler V, Walker L, Hutton A, Cole BV, Clemmer T. Intensive care nurses' experiences with end-of-life care. Am J Crit Care. 2000 ; 9 (1). 36-42
34. Curtis JR, Patrick DL, Shannon SE, Treece PD, Engelberg RA, Rubenfeld GD. The family conference as a focus to improve communication about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: opportunities for improvement. Crit Care Med. 2001 ; 29 (2 suppl). N26 - N33
35. Wenrich MD, Curtis JR, Shannon SE, Carline JD, Ambrozy DM, Ramsey PG. Communicating with dying patients within the spectrum of medical care from terminal diagnosis to death [see comment]. Arch Intern Med. 2001 ; 161 (6). 868-874 (Pubitemid 32225397)
36. Asch DA, Shea JA, Jedrziewski MK, Bosk CL. The limits of suffering: critical care nurses' views of hospital care at the end of life. Soc Sci Med. 1997 ; 45 (11). 1661-1668 (Pubitemid 27511336)
37. Corser WD. The contemporary nurse-physician relationship: insights from scholars outside the two professions [see comment]. Nurs Outlook. 2000 ; 48 (6). 263-268
38. Baggs JG, Schmitt MH. End-of-life decisions in adult intensive care: current research base and directions for the future. Nurs Outlook. 2000 ; 48 (4). 158-164
39. Rabatin JT, Elmer J, Kunz J, Festic E. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2005: A910.
40. Gruber PC, Gomersall CD, Joynt GM, et al. Changes in medical students' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions across different years of medical training. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 ; 23 (10). 1608-1614
41. Vazirani RM, Slavin SJ, Feldman JD. Longitudinal study of pediatric house officers' attitudes toward death and dying [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 2000 ; 28 (11). 3740-3745
42. Stevens L, Cook D, Guyatt G, Griffith L, Walter S, McMullin J. Education, ethics, and end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2002 ; 30 (2). 290-296 (Pubitemid 34158109)
43. Levy MM. End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: can we do better?. Crit Care Med. 2001 ; 29 (2 suppl). N56 - N61
44. Carron AT, Lynn J, Keaney P. End-of-life care in medical textbooks. Ann Intern Med. 1999 ; 130 (1). 82-86 (Pubitemid 29019463)
45. Cassell J, Buchman TG, Streat S, Stewart RM, Buchman TG. Surgeons, intensivists, and the covenant of care: administrative models and values affecting care at the end of life [see comment] [republished in Crit Care Med. 2003;31(5):1551-1557; discussion 1557-9; PMID: 12771632]. Crit Care Med. 2003 ; 31 (4). 1263-1270
46. Baggs JG, Schmitt MH, Mushlin AI, et al. Association between nurse-physician collaboration and patient outcomes in three intensive care units [see comment]. Crit Care Med. 1999 ; 27 (9). 1991-1998 (Pubitemid 29455136)