Background Advance directives (AD) imply the promise of determining future medical
treatment in case of decisional incapacity. However, clinical practice increasingly indicates …

Study objectives To assess the impact of a proactive case finding approach to end-of-life
care for critically ill patients experiencing global cerebral ischemia (GCI) after …

Importance Little is known about whether clinicians and surrogate decision makers follow
recommended strategies for shared decision making by incorporating intensive care unit …

Objective To identify health states that patients with acute stroke deem worse than death and
to explore potential predictors for these ratings. Methods This was a cross-sectional study …

Objective: To quantify the accuracy of commonly used intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)
predictive models in ICH patients with and without early do-not-resuscitate orders (DNR) …

Objectives: Participating in a decision to limit life support for a loved one in the ICU is
associated with adverse mental health consequences for surrogate decision makers. We …

Background To facilitate comparative research, it is essential for the fields of neurocritical
care and rehabilitation to establish common data elements (CDEs) for disorders of …

Objective To systematically describe literature that identified patient/family/caregiver
priorities for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)–specific patient-reported outcome measures …

Introduction Patients admitted to the Neurocritical Care Unit (NCCU) with moderate-to-
severe acute strokes, along with their surrogate decision makers, have the potential for …

Background and Objectives During acute hospitalizations, physicians often focus on the
stroke patient and not family who may be traumatized by this sudden change to their loved …