News tagged with surrogate decision


Website launched to help patients prepare for complex medical decisions

A new patient-friendly online resource called PREPARE has been developed to help people make complex medical decisions. The website was developed by researchers from the San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF, and NCIRE - The ...

Health created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Let's talk: The nature of the health care surrogate-clinician relationship

A new study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine examines the relationship between family members who make decisions for hospitalized older adults with impaired cognition and the doctors, ...

Health created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new model for predicting recovery after spinal cord injury

For more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with spinal cord injury, the frightening days and weeks following the injury are filled with uncertainty about their potential for recovery and future independence. ...

Neuroscience created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Family members of ICU patients too optimistic when faced with grim prognoses

Family members of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) tend to be overly optimistic about the possibility of recovery despite being told that the prognosis is grim, according to a study led by researchers at the University ...

Health created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Writing DNR orders takes longer, death more likely when surrogate decision-maker involved

Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute researchers report that it takes significantly longer for orders to forgo resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest to be written for patients who had that decision made for ...

Other created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0