Aim Synthesise the existing literature on experiences and health outcomes of family
members of adult cardiac arrest patients either after hospital discharge or death and identify …

The purpose of this review was to evaluate end-of-life care (EOLC) in the intensive care unit
(ICU) from the perspective of family members. Sandelowski's segregated approach from …

Background Whether surrogate decision makers regret decisions about the use of life
support for incapacitated, critically ill patients remain uncertain. We sought to determine the …

Objective To describe the perceptions of caregivers of children with medical complexity
(CMC) about their decision to pursue tracheostomy for their children, in particular the …

People who are unable to make decisions about participating in research rely on proxies to
make a decision based on their wishes and preferences. However, patients rarely discuss …

Experiencing the end of life of a family member in the intensive care unit is clearly difficult.
An important role of critical care nurses is to help family members through this challenging …

Objective To describe levels of perceived shared decision making (SDM), decisional conflict
(DC), and decision regret (DR) in prenatal counseling by pregnant women, partners …

The mortality rate in intensive care units (ICUs) is notably high, with patients often relying on
surrogates for critical medical decisions due to their compromised state. This paper provides …

Abstract Background/Objective Surrogate decision makers for patients with intracerebral
hemorrhage (ICH) are frequently asked to make difficult decisions on use of life-sustaining …

Context Regret plays a central role in surrogate decision making. Research on decisional
regret in family surrogates is scarce and lacks longitudinal studies to illustrate the …