The effect of emotion and physician communication behaviors on surrogates' life-sustaining treatment decisions: A randomized simulation experiment

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1686-1691

  Barnato, Amber E ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation; communication; decision making; ethics; surrogate; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESUSCITATION; SIMULATION;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84880571880     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31828a233d     Document Type: Article

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