Journal article
Personalizing death in the intensive care unit: the 3 Wishes Project: a mixed-methods study.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Dying in the complex, efficiency-driven environment of the intensive care unit can be dehumanizing for the patient and have profound, long-lasting consequences for all persons attendant to that death.
OBJECTIVE: To bring peace to the final days of a patient's life and to ease the grieving process.
Authors
Cook D; Swinton M; Toledo F; Clarke F; Rose T; Hand-Breckenridge T; Boyle A; Woods A; Zytaruk N; Heels-Ansdell D
Journal
Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 163, No. 4, pp. 271–279
Publisher
American College of Physicians
Publication Date
August 18, 2015
DOI
10.7326/m15-0502
ISSN
1056-8751