Interventions for Shared Decision-Making About Life Support in the Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-16

  Kryworuchko, Jennifer ^a   Hill, Elina ^b   Murray, Mary Ann ^c   Stacey, Dawn ^d   Fergusson, Dean A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Life support care; Patient participation; Shared decision making; Systematic review; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873250845     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2012.00247.x     Document Type: Review

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