Approximately 20% of all deaths in the USA occur in the intensive care unit (ICU) and the
majority of ICU deaths involves decision of de-escalation of life-sustaining interventions. Life …

Stroke is a leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide. Recent advances in stroke
care now enable patients with severe ischemic stroke owing to large vessel occlusion to …

Creutzfeldt et al Palliative Care in Acute Stroke 2715 examining the clinical characteristics of
the subset of stroke patients seen by palliative care specialists18, 23–25: Compared with …

Background and Purpose—The purpose of this statement is to delineate basic expectations
regarding primary palliative care competencies and skills to be considered, learned, and …

Objective: We compared the accuracy of clinicians and a risk score (iScore) to predict
observed outcomes following an acute ischemic stroke. Methods: The JURaSSiC (Clinician …

Objectives: Despite recent trials demonstrating improved functional outcomes in patients
with malignant middle cerebral artery ischemic strokes treated with hemicraniectomy …

Background Stroke is common and costly, annually depriving the lives and well-being of
800,000 Americans. Despite demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials, questions remain about …

Background The benefit of palliative care referral for severe stroke patients on end‐of‐life
care pathway (EOLCP) is increasingly recognised. Palliative care provides assistance with …

Background Surrogate decision-makers (“surrogates”) and physicians of incapacitated
patients have different views of prognosis and how it should be communicated, but this has …

Introduction End-of-life decisions after stroke should be guided by accurate estimates of the
patient's prognosis. We assessed the accuracy of physicians' estimates regarding mortality …