• J Pain Symptom Manage · Nov 2015

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    Recommendations to Surrogates at the End of Life: A Critical Narrative Review of the Empirical Literature and a Normative Analysis.

    • Micah T Prochaska and Daniel P Sulmasy.
    • Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Nov 1; 50 (5): 693-700.

    AbstractPhysician recommendations have historically been a part of shared decision making. Recent literature has challenged the idea that physician recommendations should be part of shared decision making at the end of life, particularly the making of recommendations to surrogates of incapacitated patients. Close examination of the studies and the available data on surrogate preferences for decisional authority at the end of life, however, provide an empirical foundation for a style of shared decision making that includes a physician recommendation. Moreover, there are independent ethical reasons for arguing that physician recommendations enhance rather than detract from shared decision making. Copyright © 2015 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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