Objective Many patients go through periods when they are too ill to give consent or to
participate in decisions. When this occurs, patient autonomy is best maintained when a …

Because patients are often unable to participate in the end-of-life decision making,
caregivers turn to close family members to participate in discussions regarding care in the …

Objectives: Although shared decision making requires clinicians to discuss the patient's
values and preferences, little is known about the extent to which this occurs with surrogates …

Although acting as a surrogate decision maker can be highly distressing for some family
members of intensive care unit patients, little is known about whether there are modifiable …

Background: Little is known about what role physicians take in the decision-making process
about life support in intensive care units. Objective: To determine how responsibility is …

Objectives: Participating in a decision to limit life support for a loved one in the ICU is
associated with adverse mental health consequences for surrogate decision makers. We …

Objective: To evaluate the capacity and willingness of French-speaking patients to
designate a surrogate within 24 h of their ICU admission. French laws fail to indicate what …

Introduction: This study aims to determine the attitudes of Asian elderly patients towards
invasive life support measures, the degree of patient-surrogate concordance in end-of-life …

Rationale: Despite ongoing ethical debate concerning who should control decisions to
discontinue life support for incapacitated, critically ill patients, the perspectives of surrogate …

Objective: To describe how critical care physicians manage conflicts with surrogates about
withdrawing or withholding patients' life support. Design: Qualitative analysis of key …