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 …

Purpose: Intensive care unit patients rarely have decisional capacity and often surrogates
make clinical decisions on their behalf. Little is known about how surrogate characteristics …

Physicians have an ethical duty to accurately determine and clearly communicate a patient's
prognosis because a patient's or surrogate's decision whether to consent for aggressive …

Objective: Even when critically ill patients are almost certain to die from their illnesses, there
is generally an element of prognostic uncertainty. Little is known about how physicians …

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 …

Objectives: We sought to determine 1) primary surrogate decision makers' knowledge of
their family members' intensive care and resuscitation status; 2) whether characteristics such …

Patients with disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury need surrogate decision
makers to guide treatment decisions on their behalf. Formal guidelines for surrogate …

Introduction. Shared Decision-Making may facilitate information exchange, deliberation, and
effective decision-making, but no decision aids currently exist for difficult decisions in …

Background Impaired capacity of patients necessitates the use of surrogates to make
decisions on behalf of patients. Little is known about surrogate decision-making in the …

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and long-term disability in the United States.
Though advances in interventions have improved patient survival after stroke …