Context The provision of palliative care varies appropriately by clinical factors such as
patient age and severity of disease and also varies by provider practice and specialty …

Background Intensive care unit nurses experience moral distress when they feel unable to
deliver ethically appropriate care to patients. Moral distress is associated with nurse burnout …

Traditionally, palliative care (PC) systems focused on the needs of advanced cancer
patients, but most patients needing PC have end-stage organ diseases. Similarly, PC …

Objectives: Little is known about the experience of financial stress for patients who survive
critical illness or their families. Our objective was to describe the prevalence of financial …

Background: Earlier goals of care (GOC) discussions in patients with advanced cancer are
associated with less aggressive end-of-life care including decreased use of medical …

The human dimensions of medical care were highlighted by such pioneering figures as
Cicely Saunders, Elizabeth Kubler‐Ross, and Jimmie Holland and their tireless advocacy …

Background Nurses in acute medical units are uniquely positioned to support goals of care
communication. Further understanding of nurse and physician perceptions about hospital …

BACKGROUND The majority of patients desire all available prognostic information, but
some physicians hesitate to discuss prognosis. The objective of the current study was to …

Purpose Relatives of intensive care unit (ICU) patients suffer emotional distress that impairs
their ability to acquire the information they need from the staff. We sought to evaluate …

Outcome To determine mortality prognostic factors in elderly patients who are admitted to
intensive care units (ICUs) due to acute critical illness. Design A prospective cohort study …