Talking About Suffering in the Intensive Care Unit
Our results did not support the claim that the term "suffering" and its variants are used primarily by clinicians to justify limiting treatment, and the terms were not commonly used in our sample when decisions were requested. Still, when these terms were used, they were often used in a decision-relevant fashion.
Authors
- Deepshikha Charan Ashana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2107-2110)
- Christopher E. Cox (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4486-0681)
- Peter A. Ubel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8218-519X)
- Brent M. Kious (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-5659)
- Jennifer Blumenthal‐Barby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1054-619X)
- Judith B. Vick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-5275)
- Olivia Sutton
Institutions
- Duke University (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- Cal Humanities (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- AJOB Empirical Bioethics
- Published
- 2024-09-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23294515.2024.2399534
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09
Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Greenwall Foundation
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute