Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by
anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering when “curative” therapies are futile. In the …

Purpose The integration of palliative care into intensive care units (ICUs) is advocated to
mitigate physical and psychological burdens for patients and their families, and to improve …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care to optimize physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
symptoms of patients and their families whose quality of life is impaired by serious, life …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Objective: To describe models used in successful clinical initiatives to improve the quality of
palliative care in critical care settings. Data Sources: We searched the MEDLINE database …

Background While a palliative approach is generally perceived to be an integral part of the
intensive care unit (ICU), the provision of palliative care in this setting is challenging. This …

Background: Over the last 20 years, multiple interventions to better integrate palliative care
and intensive care unit (ICU) care have been evaluated. This systematic review summarizes …

Initiatives to improve end-of-life care in intensive care units face several important barriers.
These include inflated expectations for critical care therapies, which are shared by many …

Objective: Although successful models for palliative care delivery and quality improvement
in the intensive care unit have been described, their applicability in surgical intensive care …

In the ICU where critically ill patients receive aggressive life-sustaining interventions,
suffering is common and death can be expected in up to 20% of patients. High-quality pain …