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Intensive Care Unit Conflicts and the Family

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In-ICU conflicts are common and tend to be less apparent to physicians than to nurses, who spend more time with patients and family members. Timely and clear communication, involving multiple voices, is necessary to prevent or mitigate conflict regarding patients with poor prognoses. Ethics and palliative care consults can facilitate conflict resolution without increasing patient mortality.

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Bienvenu, O.J. (2018). Intensive Care Unit Conflicts and the Family. In: Netzer, G. (eds) Families in the Intensive Care Unit. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94337-4_12

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