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"No escalation of treatment" as a routine strategy for decision-making in the ICU: con.

scientific article published on 5 August 2014

"We Understand the Prognosis, but We Live with Our Heads in the Clouds": Understanding Patient and Family Outcome Expectations and Their Influence on Shared Decision Making.

scientific article published on February 2016

2016 Taipei Declaration for Prevention of Suffering

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

A Multicenter Study of the Causes and Consequences of Optimistic Expectations About Prognosis by Surrogate Decision-Makers in ICUs

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

A New Generation of Comfort Care Order Sets: Aligning Protocols with Current Principles

scientific article

A Procedural Approach to Teaching Residents To Conduct Intensive Care Unit Family Conferences.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

A multifaceted intervention to improve compliance with process measures for ICU clinician communication with ICU patients and families.

scientific article published in October 2013

A scenario-based, randomized trial of patient values and functional prognosis on intensivist intent to discuss withdrawing life support.

scientific article

Accountability for Community-Based Programs for the Seriously Ill.

scientific article

Achieving Goal-Concordant Care: A Conceptual Model and Approach to Measuring Serious Illness Communication and Its Impact

scientific article published in November 2017

Addressing lung transplant with adults with cystic fibrosis: A qualitative analysis of patients' perspectives and experiences

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Addressing the Psychological Symptoms of Critical Illness: The Importance of "Negative" Trials in Guiding Next Steps

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Admitting patients with preset treatment limitations to the intensive care unit: an opportunity to clarify goals of care*

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Advance Directives for Dementia: Meeting a Unique Challenge

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Aligning Intention and Effect: What Can We Learn From Family Members' Responses to Condolence Letters?

scientific article

An Intervention to Enhance Goals-of-Care Communication Between Heart Failure Patients and Heart Failure Providers

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Are written advance directives helpful to guide end-of-life therapy in the intensive care unit? A retrospective matched-cohort study.

scientific article published in February 2014

Assessment of Self-reported Prognostic Expectations of People Undergoing Dialysis: United States Renal Data System Study of Treatment Preferences (USTATE)

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Association between Physician Trainee Self-Assessments in Discussing Religion and Spirituality and Their Patients' Reports

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Association between hospital volume and network membership and an analgesia, sedation and delirium order set quality score: a cohort study.

scientific article published on 18 June 2012

Association of Increasing Use of Mechanical Ventilation Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia and Intensive Care Unit Beds.

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

Barriers to optimal palliative care of lung transplant candidates

scientific article published in March 2013

Care of the Critically Ill Burn Patient. An Overview from the Perspective of Optimizing Palliative Care

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Case Fatality Rates for COVID-19 Patients Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Choosing and using screening criteria for palliative care consultation in the ICU: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU) Advisory Board.

scientific article published on October 2013

Clinical and economic implications of timing of limitations in life support

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Clinician-Family Communication About Patients' Values and Preferences in Intensive Care Units

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Clinicians' perceptions of the usefulness of a communication facilitator in the intensive care unit

scientific article

Collaborative science and the American Thoracic Society: cooperation in harmony with conflict of interest.

scientific article published on February 2012

Comment on letter to the editor “In response to: Families' experiences of ICU quality of care: Development and validation of a European questionnaire (euroQ2)”

scientific article published on 04 August 2015

Comparing Quality of Dying and Death Perceived by Family Members and Nurses for Patients Dying in US and Dutch ICUs

scientific article

Competing and conflicting interests in the care of critically ill patients

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Concordance of Nurses and Physicians on Whether Critical Care Patients are Receiving Futile Treatment

scientific article published on September 2015

Conflicts of interest in critical care partnerships: are we living up to our values?

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Correction to: White paper: statement on conflicts of interest

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Cost effectiveness analysis for nursing research.

scientific article published on July 2013

Cost savings vary by length of stay for inpatients receiving palliative care consultation services

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Culturally Adapting an Advance Care Planning Communication Intervention With American Indian and Alaska Native People in Primary Care

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Determinants of Receiving Palliative Care and Ventilator Withdrawal Among Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Determinants of downloads and citations for articles published in Intensive Care Medicine

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Developing a Research Agenda for Integrating Palliative Care into Critical Care and Pulmonary Practice To Improve Patient and Family Outcomes.

scientific article

Development and evaluation of an interprofessional communication intervention to improve family outcomes in the ICU

scientific article published on 06 July 2012

Development of a Model of Interprofessional Shared Clinical Decision Making in the ICU: A Mixed-Methods Study.

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Did a goals-of-care discussion happen? Differences in the occurrence of goals-of-care discussions as reported by patients, clinicians, and in the electronic health record

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Differences in end-of-life care in the ICU across patients cared for by medicine, surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery physicians.

scientific article published on February 2014

Economic Feasibility of Staffing the Intensive Care Unit with a Communication Facilitator

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Economic implications of end-of-life care in the ICU.

scientific article

Effect of Documenting Prognosis on the Information Provided to ICU Proxies: A Randomized Trial

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Effect of Psychiatric Illness on Acute Care Utilization at End of Life From Serious Medical Illness.

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Effect of a Patient and Clinician Communication-Priming Intervention on Patient-Reported Goals-of-Care Discussions Between Patients With Serious Illness and Clinicians: A Randomized Clinical Trial

academic article

Effect of communication skills training for residents and nurse practitioners on quality of communication with patients with serious illness: a randomized trial

scientific article

End-of-Life Services Among Patients With Cancer: Evidence From Cancer Registry Records Linked With Commercial Health Insurance Claims

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End-of-life expenditure in the ICU and perceived quality of dying

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Enhancing informed decision making: is more information always better?

scientific article

Estimating the effect of palliative care interventions and advance care planning on ICU utilization: a systematic review

scientific article published in May 2015

Evaluating the Economic Impact of Palliative and End-of-Life Care Interventions on Intensive Care Unit Utilization and Costs from the Hospital and Healthcare System Perspective.

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Examining palliative care team involvement in automatic consultations for children on extracorporeal life support in the pediatric intensive care unit.

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Exploring Opportunities for Primary Outpatient Palliative Care for Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patients' Needs.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Factors Affecting Patients' Preferences for and Actual Discussions About End-of-Life Care.

scientific article

Factors associated with advance directives completion among patients with advance care planning communication in Taipei, Taiwan

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Families' experiences of intensive care unit quality of care: Development and validation of a European questionnaire (euroQ2).

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Family Perspectives on Aggressive Cancer Care Near the End of Life.

scientific article

Family satisfaction in the ICU: why should ICU clinicians care?

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Family-centered outcomes during and after critical illness: current outcomes and opportunities for future investigation

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Feasibility and Acceptability of Nurse-Led Primary Palliative Care for Older Adults with Chronic Conditions: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Financial stress after critical illness: an unintended consequence of high-intensity care

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Focus on ethics and palliative care in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Focus on palliative care in the ICU.

scientific article

Global variability in withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Goals-of-Care Decisions by Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer: Missed Clinician Opportunities for Facilitating Shared Decision-Making

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Costs in the Last Year of Life Among Decedents Utilizing the ICU

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Homing in on the Social: Systems-level Influences on Overly Aggressive Treatments at the End of Life.

scientific article

Hope and benefit finding: Results from the PRISM randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 30 September 2018

Hospital variation and temporal trends in palliative and end-of-life care in the ICU.

scientific article

How Often Is End-of-Life Care in the United States Inconsistent with Patients' Goals of Care?

scientific article

How to respond to an ICU patient asking if she/he is going to die.

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

ICU clinicians' perceptions of appropriateness of care and the importance of nurse-physician collaboration

scientific article published on June 2012

Identifying elements of ICU care that families report as important but unsatisfactory: decision-making, control, and ICU atmosphere.

scientific article

Improving palliative care for patients with COPD

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Inadequate Palliative Care in Chronic Lung Disease. An Issue of Health Care Inequality.

scientific article published on 05 January 2016

Integrating Palliative Care Into the Care of Neurocritically Ill Patients: A Report From the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Project Advisory Board and the Center to Advance Palliative Care

scientific article

Integrating palliative care into the PICU: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Advisory Board

scientific article

Integration of palliative care in the context of rapid response: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU advisory board

scientific article

Intensity of End-of-Life Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies and the Role of Race/Ethnicity

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Internal medicine trainee self-assessments of end-of-life communication skills do not predict assessments of patients, families, or clinician-evaluators

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Interprofessional Shared Decision-Making in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Recommendations From an Expert Panel

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Interprofessional communication skills training for serious illness: evaluation of a small-group, simulated patient intervention

scientific article

Is There Hope? Is She There? How Families and Clinicians Experience Severe Acute Brain Injury

scientific article

Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences: Matches and Mismatches Between Patients' Preferences and Clinicians' Perceptions ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2012

Long-term outcomes after in-hospital CPR in older adults with chronic illness.

scientific article

Long-term persistence of quality improvements for an intensive care unit communication initiative using the VALUE strategy.

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

Measuring Depression-Severity in Critically Ill Patients' Families with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ): Tests for Unidimensionality and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance, with Implications for CONSORT

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Medical Student Training on Code Status Discussions: How Far Have We Come?

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Nature and correlates of post-traumatic stress symptomatology in lung transplant recipients.

scientific article published in May 2013

Neuropalliative care: Priorities to move the field forward

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

New developments in the provision of family-centered care in the intensive care unit.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Do-Not-Intubate and Comfort-Measures-Only Orders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Novel Data Linkages to Characterize Palliative and End-Of-Life Care: Challenges and Considerations

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Novel Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Family Members of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Nurses' Reflections on Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Family-Centered Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

scientific article published in January 2018

Opportunity lost: end-of-life discussions in cancer patients who die in the hospital

scientific article

Our responsibility for training physicians to understand the effect patient death has on them: the role of the intensivist.

scientific article published in May 2014

Palliative Care Needs Assessment in the Neuro-ICU: Effect on Family.

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Palliative Care Needs in the Neuro-ICU

scientific article published in August 2015

Palliative Care for Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Unit with Chronic Lung Disease Compared with Metastatic Cancer.

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Palliative Care in the ICU and the Role for Physician-Assisted Dying-Or Lack Thereof.

scientific article

Palliative Care in the Pediatric ICU: Challenges and Opportunities for Family-Centered Practice ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Palliative Care: A Core Competency for Stroke Neurologists

scientific article (publication date: September 2015)

Palliative and end-of-life care research: Embracing new opportunities ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Palliative care in critical illness: challenges for research and practice

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Palliative care in the ICU: relief of pain, dyspnea, and thirst--a report from the IPAL-ICU Advisory Board

scientific article

Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients - a systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Patient and family engagement in the ICU: Report from the task force of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

scientific article published on 08 September 2018

Patient-centered Outcomes Research in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Patterns of Cost for Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Unit and Implications for Cost Savings of Palliative Care Interventions

scientific article

Perspectives on advance care planning and palliative care among adults with congenital heart disease

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Physical Function and Disability After Acute Care and Critical Illness Hospitalizations in a Prospective Cohort of Older Adults

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Physicians' and Nurse Practitioners' Level of Pessimism About End-of-Life Care During Training: Does It Change Over Time?

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Physicians' decision-making roles for critically ill patients: what is the "right" approach?*

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

Policies allowing family presence during resuscitation and patterns of care during in-hospital cardiac arrest.

scientific article

Posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors of critical illness: creation of a conceptual model addressing identification, prevention, and management

scientific article

Potential Influence of Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care Consultation on ICU Costs for Patients With Chronic and Serious Illness.

scientific article

Pragmatic methods to avoid intensive care unit admission when it does not align with patient and family goals

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Predictors of Advance Care Planning Documentation in Patients With Underlying Chronic Illness Who Died of Traumatic Injury

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Predictors of Death in the Hospital for Patients with Chronic Serious Illness.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Prevalence and Outcomes of Patients Meeting Palliative Care Consultation Triggers in Neurological Intensive Care Units.

scientific article published on August 2015

Prevalence of Disagreement About Appropriateness of Treatment Between ICU Patients/Surrogates and Clinicians

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Prevalence of and Factors Related to Discordance About Prognosis Between Physicians and Surrogate Decision Makers of Critically Ill Patients.

scientific article

Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Financial Stress in Survivors of Critical Illness.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Promoting resilience in adolescents and young adults with cancer: Results from the PRISM randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Pulmonary rehabilitation, physical activity, respiratory failure and palliative respiratory care

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Quality of Communication and Trust in Patients With Serious Illness: An Exploratory Study of the Relationships of Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Religiosity

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Quality of dying and death in the ICU. The euroQ2 project

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Quality of dying in the ICU: is it worse for patients admitted from the hospital ward compared to those admitted from the emergency department?

scientific article

Quality of dying in the ICU: understanding ways to make it better.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Race, income, and education: associations with patient and family ratings of end-of-life care and communication provided by physicians-in-training

scientific article published on 04 March 2014

Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Healthcare Intensity at the End of Life

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Randomized Trial of Communication Facilitators to Reduce Family Distress and Intensity of End-of-Life Care.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Resilience and psychosocial outcomes in parents of children with cancer

scientific article

Satisfaction with quality of ICU care for patients and families: the euroQ2 project.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Seeking worldwide professional consensus on the principles of end-of-life care for the critically ill. The Consensus for Worldwide End-of-Life Practice for Patients in Intensive Care Units (WELPICUS) study.

scientific article

Self-Assessment Scores Improve After Simulation-Based Palliative Care Communication Skill Workshops.

scientific article published in January 2016

Strategies for Enhancing Family Participation in Research in the ICU: Findings From a Qualitative Study.

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Survey burden for family members surveyed about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit.

scientific article

Temporal Trends Between 2010 and 2015 in Intensity of Care at End-of-Life for Patients With Chronic Illness: Influence of Age Under vs. Over 65 Years.

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

The 2017 Taipei Declaration for Health-Promoting Palliative Care

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

The 2018 Taipei Declaration for Ultimate Integration of Palliative Care

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The Family Communication Study: A randomized trial of prospective pediatric palliative care consultation, study methodology and perceptions of participation burden

scientific article published on June 2016

The Influence of Race/Ethnicity and Education on Family Ratings of the Quality of Dying in the ICU

scientific article

The association between red blood cell and platelet transfusion and subsequently developing idiopathic pneumonia syndrome after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

scientific article

The association of spiritual care providers' activities with family members' satisfaction with care after a death in the ICU*.

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The changing role of palliative care in the ICU

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The critical importance of symptoms during and after intensive care.

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The epidemic of physician-family conflict in the ICU and what we should do about it.

scientific article published in February 2014

The importance and challenge of measuring family experience with end-of-life care in the ICU.

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

The importance of word choice in the care of critically ill patients and their families

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

The intensive care unit family conference. Teaching a critical intensive care unit procedure

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

The long term impact of an end-of-life communication intervention among veterans with COPD.

scientific article published on January 2017

Time to Death after Terminal Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation: Specific Respiratory and Physiologic Parameters May Inform Physician Predictions

scientific article

Toward Understanding the Relationship Between Prioritized Values and Preferences for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Among Seriously Ill Adults

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Training and career development in palliative care and end-of-life research: opportunities for development in the U.S.

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

Training for effective patient communication--reply

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Trends in in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in adults receiving maintenance dialysis

scientific article

Triage of intensive care patients: identifying agreement and controversy.

scientific article published on 8 August 2013

Understanding Response Rates to Surveys About Family Members' Psychological Symptoms After Patients' Critical Illness.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Understanding ethical climate, moral distress, and burnout: a novel tool and a conceptual framework

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Understanding variability of end-of-life care in the ICU for the elderly.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Using Electronic Health Records for Quality Measurement and Accountability in Care of the Seriously Ill: Opportunities and Challenges.

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Using Nurse Ratings of Physician Communication in the ICU To Identify Potential Targets for Interventions To Improve End-of-Life Care.

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Using Qualitative Research to Inform Development of Professional Guidelines: A Case Study of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Family-Centered Care Guidelines.

scientific article

Using Technology to Create a More Humanistic Approach to Integrating Palliative Care into the Intensive Care Unit

scientific article

Variability in decisions to limit life-sustaining treatments: is it all about the physician?

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

What the heck is a "nodule"? A qualitative study of veterans with pulmonary nodules.

scientific article published on August 2013

Which patient and clinician characteristics are associated with high-quality communication among veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

scientific article

White paper: statement on conflicts of interest

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Whom should we rely on when assessing symptoms of critically ill patients?

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011. II. Cardiovascular, infections, pneumonia and sepsis, critical care organization and outcome, education, ultrasonography, metabolism and coagulation

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011: I. Nephrology, epidemiology, nutrition and therapeutics, neurology, ethical and legal issues, experimentals.

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2011: III. ARDS and ECMO, weaning, mechanical ventilation, noninvasive ventilation, pediatrics and miscellanea

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2013: I. Acute kidney injury, ultrasound, hemodynamics, cardiac arrest, transfusion, neurocritical care, and nutrition.

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2013: II. Sedation, invasive and noninvasive ventilation, airways, ARDS, ECMO, family satisfaction, end-of-life care, organ donation, informed consent, safety, hematological issues in critically ill patients

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2013: III. Sepsis, infections, respiratory diseases, pediatrics.

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2014: II. ARDS, airway management, ventilation, adjuvants in sepsis, hepatic failure, symptoms assessment and management, palliative care and support for families, prognostication, organ donation, outcome, o

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2014: III. Severe infections, septic shock, healthcare-associated infections, highly resistant bacteria, invasive fungal infections, severe viral infections, Ebola virus disease and paediatrics.

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