CoV-2) pandemic will likely strain our health care system beyond capacity, and palliative
care services will be needed across many different care settings, including intensive care …

Because most critically ill patients lack decision-making capacity, physicians often ask family
members to act as surrogates for the patient in discussions about the goals of care …

Explainability for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is a hotly debated topic. Our paper
presents a review of the key arguments in favor and against explainability for AI-powered …

Importance Frailty is an important risk factor for postoperative mortality. Whether the
association between frailty and mortality is consistent across all surgical specialties …

Purpose Physicians have an ethical obligation to honor patients' values for care, including at
the end of life (EOL). We sought to evaluate factors that help patients to receive care …

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism
of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and …

Weaning covers the entire process of liberating the patient from mechanical support and
from the endotracheal tube. Many controversial questions remain concerning the best …

Background The questions patients are asked about their preferences with regard to life-
sustaining treatment usually focus on specific interventions, but the outcomes of treatment …

Objective: To describe doctors' prognostic accuracy in terminally ill patients and to evaluate
the determinants of that accuracy. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Five outpatient …

Context.—Previous studies have documented that cancer patients tend to overestimate the
probability of long-term survival. If patient preferences about the trade-offs between the risks …