Objective: Physicians and surrogate decision-makers for seriously ill patients often have
different views of patients' prognoses. We sought to understand what sources of knowledge …

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 …

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

Background: Patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) raise important palliative care
considerations associated with sudden devastating injury and uncertain prognosis …

OBJECTIVES: Treatment decisions following severe acute brain injury need to consider
patients' goals-of-care and long-term outcomes. Using family members as respondents, we …

Improved resuscitation methods and advances in critical care have significantly increased
the survival of patients presenting with devastating brain injuries compared to prior decades …

Making medical decisionson behalf of hospitalized patients who lack decisional capacity
can be extraordinarily stressful for family members acting as their surrogates. In a2011reviewof40studiesthatincluded2854s …

Many patients hospitalized after severe acute brain injury are comatose and require life-
sustaining therapies. Some of these patients make favorable recoveries with continued …

Objective: Although misperceptions about prognosis by surrogates in ICUs are common and
influence treatment decisions, there is no validated, practical way to measure the …