Background Ethical conflicts, often leading to poor teamwork and moral distress, are very
challenging to patients, patients' families, and health care providers. A proactive approach to …

Background: Ethical conflict and subsequent nurse moral distress and burnout are common
in the intensive care unit (ICU). There is a gap in our understanding of nurses' perceptions of …

Background Ethical conflicts complicate clinical practice and often compromise
communication and teamwork among patients, families, and clinicians. As ethical conflicts …

Background Moral dilemmas and ethical conflicts occur in critical care. Negative
consequences include misunderstandings, mistrust, patient and family suffering, clinician …

Background Critical care clinicians routinely encounter ethically complex situations. Ethical
conflicts sometimes arise from different perspectives regarding goals of care and moral …

Purpose: Nurses in all clinical settings encounter ethical issues that frequently lead to moral
distress. This critical incident study explored nurses' descriptions of ethically difficult …

Aim: To examine interprofessional healthcare professionals' perceptions of triggers and root
causes of moral distress. Design: Qualitative description of open-text comments written on …

In a previously published multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled trial of more than
500 intensive care unit patients involved in conflicts over treatment decisions, ethics …

We developed and assessed feasibility of an Ethics Screening and Early Intervention Tool
that identifies at-risk clinical situations and prompts early actions to mitigate conflict and …

Objectives To analyse the level of exposure of nurses to ethical conflict and determine the
relationship between this exposure, sociodemographic variables and perceptions of the …