Pitfalls in communication that lead to nonbeneficial emergency surgery in elderly patients with serious illness: Description of the problem and elements of a solution

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 260, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 949-957

  Cooper, Zara ^a   Courtwright, Andrew ^a   Karlage, Ami ^a,b   Gawande, Atul ^a,b   Block, Susan ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; End of life care; Shared decision making; Structured communication; Surgical emergencies

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONVERSATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURGEON; TRAINING; TREATMENT PLANNING; AGED; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIVING WILL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84922320001     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000721     Document Type: Article

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