From the inception of the intensive care unit (ICU), endof-life care has always been
delivered in this setting due to the high severity of illness of the patients. Approximately 50 …

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 …

A large proportion of deaths in the United States occur in the intensive care unit (ICU) or
after a stay in the ICU, and there is evidence of problems in the quality of care these patients …

Despite the best efforts of modern health care and critical care providers, many patients in
the intensive care unit (ICU) will still die each year. The need for palliative care services in …

All hospitalized patients should be receiving some form of pal-liative care, as palliative care
includes the palliation of signs or symptoms of disease. However, we most often associate …

Background Palliative care arose in the 1960s as a means to meet the needs of dying
patients at the end of life and was based on hospice philosophies. It consisted mostly of …

Objective: Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty
about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we …

Our objective was to describe the rationale and implementation of educational,
environmental, clinical, and communication interventions designed to maximize indicators of …

Objectives: To describe unique features of neurocritical illness that are relevant to provision
of high-quality palliative care; to discuss key prognostic aids and their limitations for …

Background: Involvement of the palliative care service has potential for patient and family
benefit in critically ill patients, regardless of etiology. Anecdotally, there is a lack of …