Background: Most children die in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units after decisions
are made to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments. These decisions can be …

Objectives To evaluate parents' perceptions of the process by which decisions are made to
limit or withdraw life support from critically ill children, and to evaluate parents' perceptions of …

Objective: To assess parental decision-making preferences in the high-stress environment
of the pediatric intensive care unit and test whether preferences vary with demographics …

Objective: Decisions to forgo life support from critically ill children are commonly faced by
parents and physicians. Previous research regarding parents' perspectives on the decision …

Objective To explore how characteristics of medical decisions influence parents' preferences
for control over decisions for their seriously ill infants. Study design In qualitative interviews …

Importance Little is known about how characteristics of particular clinical decisions influence
decision-making preferences by patients or their surrogates. A better understanding of the …

Introduction: Many children are born with life-limiting illnesses. Medical decision-making for
these children by caregivers is complex and causes significant psychosocial distress, which …

Background: Decisions about medical indication are a relevant problem in pediatrics.
Difficulties arise from the high prognostic uncertainty, the decisional incapacity of many …

Background: Intensive care doctors have to find the right balance between sharing crucial
decisions with families of patients on the one hand and not overburdening them on the other …

Objective: To identify factors important to parents making decisions for their critically ill child.
Design: Prospective cross-sectional study. Setting: Single center, tertiary care PICU …