End-of-life Decisions in Intensive Care Medicine–Shared Decision-Making and Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay
2015
Background
Most deaths on the intensive care unit (ICU) occur after end-of-life decisions (EOLD) have been made. During the decision-making process, responsibility is often shared within the caregiver team and with the patients’ surrogates. The intensive care unit length of stay (ICU-LOS) of surgical ICU-patients depends on the primary illness as well as on the past medical history. Whether an increasing ICU-LOS affects the process of EOLD making is unknown.
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