Background Effective shared decision-making relies on some degree of alignment between
families and the medical team regarding a patient's likelihood of recovery. Patients with …

Importance Shared decision-making requires key stakeholders to align in perceptions of
prognosis and likely treatment outcomes. Objective For patients with severe acute brain …

Objectives: In the early phase of severe acute brain injury (SABI), surrogate decision-makers
must make treatment decisions in the face of prognostic uncertainty. Evidence-based …

Importance Family members of patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) are at risk for
poor psychological outcomes. Objective To explore the utility of the early use of a palliative …

Prognostication is crucial in the neurological intensive care unit (neuroICU). Patients with
severe acute brain injury (SABI) are unable to make their own decisions because of the …

Background: Patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) lack decision-making capacity,
calling on families and clinicians to make goal-concordant decisions, aligning treatment with …

The outcome prediction models that have evolved from these databases are undergoing
further refinement and validation, and it is likely that these advances will prove valuable in …

Objective To determine whether groups of surrogates for patients with severe acute brain
injury (SABI) with poor prognosis can be identified based on their prioritization of goals-of …

Objectives: Accurate prognostic information in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
remains limited, but mortality following the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies is high and …

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