Rethinking Interventions to Improve Surrogate Decision Making in Intensive Care Units
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Rethinking interventions to improve surrogate decision making in intensive care units.
Many aspects of care for critically ill patients that were once managed exclusively by physicians are now collaboratively managed by clinicians from several disciplines. However, most of the responsibility remains with physicians to help surrogate decision makers deliberate about goals of care for patients with advanced critical illness. This is rational if decision making is conceptualized as ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Critical Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1062-3264,1937-710X
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2011106