Time to Talk Money? Intensive Care Unit Clinicians’ Perspectives on Addressing Patients’ Financial Hardship
Participants recognized financial hardship as an important consequence of critical illness that negatively affected patient and family outcomes, yet they described barriers to adequately addressing this topic. Normalizing discussions about the financial impacts of critical illness and systematically screening for financial hardship may be a first step in mitigating these barriers.
Authors
- Ruth A. Engelberg
- Danae Dotolo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5838-4834)
- Alison M. Uyeda
- Jennifer Im (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3059-4586)
- Christina C. Pytel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8887-4388)
- Elizabeth L. Nielsen
- Nita Khandelwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3374-6410)
Institutions
- Harborview Medical Center (US)
- Department of Health (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Critical Care
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2025476
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.88