Families stall end of life talks, say doctors. True?
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Doctors and nurses said patients and their families created the largest obstacles to end-of-life decision making in the ICU, in a large survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine. About 1,300 staff at 13 academic hospitals in Canada rated barriers to end-of-life goals of care on a 1-7 scale. Doctors and nurses considered the largest barriers to end-of-life decision making to be family members' and patients' reluctance to accept a poor prognosis, along with their poor understanding of the limitations and complications of life-sustaining treatments (rated about 6 on the 7 point scale).
Families stall end of life talks, say doctors. True?
Families stall end of life talks, say…
Families stall end of life talks, say doctors. True?
Doctors and nurses said patients and their families created the largest obstacles to end-of-life decision making in the ICU, in a large survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine. About 1,300 staff at 13 academic hospitals in Canada rated barriers to end-of-life goals of care on a 1-7 scale. Doctors and nurses considered the largest barriers to end-of-life decision making to be family members' and patients' reluctance to accept a poor prognosis, along with their poor understanding of the limitations and complications of life-sustaining treatments (rated about 6 on the 7 point scale).