Patient-centred care (PCC) has emerged as a primary approach to health care. This
approach emphasises partnerships in health between patients and healthcare …

Purpose To investigate the extent of objective 'non-beneficial treatments (NBTs)'(too much)
anytime in the last 6 months of life in routine hospital care. Data sources English language …

Objectives: To update the Society of Critical Care Medicine's guidelines for ICU admission,
discharge, and triage, providing a framework for clinical practice, the development of …

Background: There is controversy about how to manage requests by patients or surrogates
for treatments that clinicians believe should not be administered. Purpose: This multisociety …

Objectives: The Society of Critical Care Medicine and four other major critical care
organizations have endorsed a seven-step process to resolve disagreements about …

Importance For critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses and poor prognoses,
overuse of invasive intensive care unit (ICU) treatments may prolong suffering without …

Purpose Increasingly, very old patients are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The
objective of this study was to describe 12-month outcomes of these patients and determine …

Importance Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in
Asia. Objective To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life …

Background Ethical challenges are common in end of life care; the uncertainty of prognosis
and the ethically permissible boundaries of treatment create confusion and conflict about the …

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for
many Americans is characterized by comfortable retirement, good health, and fulfilling …