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 …

Integrating palliative care into the surgical and trauma intensive care unit is challenging. The
nature of surgical illness, practice patterns of surgeons and critical care nurses, and the …

The disciplines of critical care and palliative care may initially seem to be polar opposites,
yet they share fundamental features. Both focus on the sickest patients in the healthcare …

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 …

Palliative care is increasingly recognized as an integral component of comprehensive
intensive care for all critically ill patients, regardless of prognosis, and for their families. Here …

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 …

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 Despite the growing acceptance of palliative care as a component of high-quality
care for patients with serious illness, it remains underutilized in the surgical critical care …

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 …

Palliative care is a core component of comprehensive care for patients facing critical illness,
regardless of age, diagnosis, or prognosis. Key domains of intensive care unit (ICU) …