Objectives: There is growing recognition that high-quality care for patients and families in the
ICU requires exemplary interprofessional collaboration and communication. One important …

Importance Poor communication by health care professionals contributes to physical and
psychological suffering in patients living with serious illness. Patients may not fully …

Abstract These European Resuscitation Council Ethics guidelines provide evidence-based
recommendations for the ethical, routine practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care of …

Background Surrogate decision makers for incapacitated, critically ill patients often struggle
with decisions related to goals of care. Such decisions cause psychological distress in …

Objective To provide an update to “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management
of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012”. Design A consensus committee of 55 international …

Importance Earlier clinician-patient conversations about patients' values, goals, and
preferences in serious illness (ie, serious illness conversations) are associated with better …

Importance End-of-life decisions occur daily in intensive care units (ICUs) around the world,
and these practices could change over time. Objective To determine the changes in end-of …

Objective To identify decision characteristics for which SDM authors deem SDM appropriate
or not, and what arguments are used. Methods We applied two search strategies: we …

Importance Misperceptions about prognosis by individuals making decisions for
incapacitated critically ill patients (surrogates) are common and often attributed to poor …

Although moral distress is now a well-recognized phenomenon among all of the healthcare
professions, few evidence-based strategies have been published to address it. In morally …