Stroke is a prevalent neurologic condition that portends a high risk of morbidity and mortality
such that patients impacted by stroke and their caregivers can benefit from palliative care at …

Objective: Early mortality is a potential measure of the quality of care provided to
hospitalized stroke patients. Whether in-hospital stroke mortality is reflective of deviations …

The goal of shared decision making in the neurocritical care setting is to form plans of care
that are consistent with best medical practice and are respectful of the patient's values …

ContextAn increasing number of deaths following severe stroke are due to terminal
extubations. Variation in withdrawal-of-care practices suggests the possibility of …

Background and Objectives Breakdowns in clinician-family communication in neurologic
intensive care units (neuroICUs) are common, particularly for goals-of-care decisions to …

People who are well may regard survival with disability as being worse than death.
However, this is often not the case when those surviving with disability (eg stroke survivors) …

Physicians often base their decisions to offer acute stroke therapies to patients around the
question of whether the patient will benefit from treatment. This has led to a plethora of …

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: Clinicians caring for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage must often discuss
prognosis and goals of care with their patients' surrogate decision makers, and may make …

Background: There are many prognostic scales that aim to predict functional outcome
following acute stroke. Despite considerable research interest, these scales have had …