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- Title
Addressing uncertainty: what is the role of consensus in end-of-life care?
- Authors
Long, Ann; Spronk, Peter; Sprung, Charles; Long, Ann C; Spronk, Peter E; Sprung, Charles L
- Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on the role of consensus in end-of-life medical care and addressing the lack of certainty in medical decision making. Topics mentioned include the employ of Delphi process in making recommendations on withdrawal of treatments in the intensive care units (ICU), the need of participants like healthcare providers to have extensive clinical experience, and the influence by regional policies, legal, and ethical framework on the decisions.
- Subjects
CONSENSUS (Social sciences); TERMINAL care &; society; UNCERTAINTY; MEDICAL decision making; DELPHI method; INTENSIVE care units
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 6, p1043
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-016-4336-1