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Effects of life-sustaining treatment plans on healthcare expenditure and healthcare utilization
PurposeTo develop an ethical and cultural infrastructure for Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) plan, it is crucial to carefully analyze its impact and...
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Association of perceived life satisfaction with attitudes toward life-sustaining treatment among the elderly in South Korea: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundAmidst rapid population aging, South Korea enacted the Well-dying Act, late among advanced countries, but public opinion on the act is not...
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Limiting life-sustaining treatment for very old ICU patients: cultural challenges and diverse practices
BackgroundDecisions about life-sustaining therapy (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) depend on predictions of survival as well as the expected...
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Declining to Provide or Continue Requested Life-Sustaining Treatment: Experience With a Hospital Resolving Conflict Policy
In 2015, the major critical care societies issued guidelines outlining a procedural approach to resolving intractable conflict between healthcare...
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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with do-not-resuscitate and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in a medical intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundIn the intensive care unit (ICU), we may encounter patients who have completed a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) or a Physician Orders to Stop...
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Limitation of life sustaining measures in neurocritical care: sex, timing, and advance directive
BackgroundThe limitation of life sustaining treatments (LLST) causes ethical dilemmas even in patients faced with poor prognosis, which applies to...
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Eleven-year retrospective study characterizing patients with severe brain damage and poor neurological prognosis -role of physicians’ attitude toward life-sustaining treatment
BackgroundSevere brain hemorrhage/infarction and cardiac arrest constitute the most critical situations leading to poor neurological prognosis....
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Discussing patient preferences for levels of life-sustaining treatment: development and pilot testing of a Danish POLST form
BackgroundMedically frail and/or chronically ill patients are often admitted to Danish hospitals without documentation of patient preferences. This...
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Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective
BackgroundIntensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in South Korea report experiencing uncertainty about how to care for patients undergoing...
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Hospital to Hospital Transfers of Cerebral Hemorrhage: Characteristics of Early Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
BackgroundLarge intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patient transfer to higher level centers is...
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Social Determinants of Health and Limitation of Life-Sustaining Therapy in Neurocritical Care: A CHoRUS Pilot Project
BackgroundSocial determinants of health (SDOH) have been linked to neurocritical care outcomes. We sought to examine the extent to which SDOH explain...
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The role of clinical phenotypes in decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment for very old patients in the ICU
BackgroundLimiting life-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) by withholding or withdrawing interventional therapies is...
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Limitation of life-sustaining treatment and patient involvement in decision-making: a retrospective study of a Danish COVID-19 patient cohort
BackgroundThe coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the risk of an extensive overload of the healthcare systems have elucidated the need to make...
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Changes in decision-making process for life-sustaining treatment in patients with advanced cancer after the life-sustaining treatment decisions-making act
BackgroundCancer is a leading cause of death in Korea. To protect the autonomy and dignity of terminally ill patients, the Life-Sustaining Treatment...
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Physicians’ attitudes and experiences about withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics: a systematic review of quantitative evidence
BackgroundOne of the most important and ethically challenging decisions made for children with life-limiting conditions is withholding/withdrawing...
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Contribution of information about acute and geriatric characteristics to decisions about life-sustaining treatment for old patients in intensive care
BackgroundLife-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is withheld or withdrawn when there is no reasonable expectation of...
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Paramedic use of the Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for medical intervention and transportation decisions
BackgroundPhysician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms (POLST) exist in some format in all 50 states. The objective of this study is to...
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Natural language processing and network analysis in patients withdrawing from life-sustaining treatments: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundProviding palliative care to patients who withdraw from life-sustaining treatments is crucial; however, delays or the absence of such...
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Prevalence, reasons, and timing of decisions to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining therapy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
BackgroundExtracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is rapidly becoming a common treatment strategy for patients with refractory cardiac...
