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Items for "Decision Making"

Structure and variation in end-of-life discussions in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

The research reported here is an exploratory discourse analysis of a corpus of six end-of-life discussions in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), describing the structure and variations of the four phases of an end-of-life discussion in terms of the function of each of these phases: the Opening (Phase 1), Description of Current Status (Phase 2), Holistic Decision Making (Phase 3), and Logistics of Dying (Phase 4)...

Keywords: physician?patient interaction, end-of-life care, Decision Making, Intensive Care, bad news, palliative care, discourse analysis

01/2005 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Integrating patients' nonmedical status in end-of-life decision making: Structuring communication through ‘conferencing’

This paper considers the nonmedical status of patients in end-of-life decisions. Considering nonmedical factors is not yet routine, particularly in decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment...

Keywords: death and dying, Intensive Care, family conferences, Communication, Decision Making, end-of-life care

11/2006 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter