Encounters with critical care near the end of life (EOL) are common, with about 30% of
elderly patients spending time in critical care units within 30 days before death (1). As …

With medical progress, death is occurring more frequently in the highly technologized
settings of the ICU (1). This has led in recent decades to increasing attention to end-of-life …

Family members of patients who die in the ICU experience significant and lasting
psychological burdens, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression …

Although only formally recognized by the American College of Graduate Medical Education
as a subspecialty in 2006, palliative care is patient-centered care that symptomatically and …

OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between family surrogates' bereavement outcomes
and four previously determined quality of dying and death (QODD) latent classes (high …

Over the last few decades, intensive care unit (ICU) care has evolved from a technical
endeavor to a holistic approach that combines state-of-the-art life support and a strong focus …

“A significant proportion of families remain at elevated risk for depression, anxiety,
posttraumatic stress symptoms, and prolonged grief disorder in the months following a loved …

Objective This cohort study identified patterns/classes of surrogates' assessment of their
relative's quality of dying and death (QODD) and to evaluate their associations with family …

In this issue of Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Johnson and colleagues [1] evaluated factors
affecting howwell they met the needs of their intensive care unit (ICU) patients' families. It is …

In this issue of CHEST (see page 1425), Wall and associates report that family members of
patients who died in the ICU rated satisfaction with care higher than families of survivors. 1 …