How clinicians discuss critically ill patients' preferences and values with surrogates: An empirical analysis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 757-764

  Scheunemann, Leslie P ^a   Cunningham, Thomas V ^b,c   Arnold, Robert M ^d,e   Buddadhumaruk, Praewpannarai ^a   White, Douglas B ^a,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Ethics; Patient centered care; Preferences and values; Shared decision making; Surrogate decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN RELATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VALUE OF LIFE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84937634358     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000772     Document Type: Article

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