Intensivist Religiosity and Perceived Conflict During a Simulated ICU Family Meeting

Conflict is frequently reported by both clinicians and surrogate decision-makers for adult patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Since religious clinicians view religion as an important dimension of end-of-life care, we hypothesized that religious critical care attendings (intensivists) would be more comfortable and perceive less conflict when discussing a patient ’s critical illness with a religious surrogate (12).

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - October 30, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Amanda Moale, Melissa L. Teply, Tiange Liu, Arun L. Singh, Pragyashree Sharma Basyal, Alison E. Turnbull Source Type: research