Doctors' conversations with families about care for critically ill patients often fail to address patients' values and preferences, according to a ...
Doctors' conversations with families about care for critically ill patients often fail to address patients' values and preferences, according to a US study that suggests there's plenty of room for improvements in communication.
Only 68 per cent of these conferences included discussions of patients values and preferences for end of life care, researchers report in JAMA Internal Medicine. And these conferences specifically applied patients' values to treatment decisions just 44 per cent of the time. Clinicians made treatment recommendations based on patients' preferences in just eight percent of the conferences.
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