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Teaching medical students to talk about death and dying in the ICU: feasibility of a peer-tutored workshop

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Judith Derka as a second, independent reviewer for the qualitative analysis. Funding for this work was provided by departmental and Skills Lab funds. Daniel Schwarzkopf receives a salary from the CSCC; the CSCC is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, FKZ:01EO1002.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical standards

The study was carried out in the context of an overarching quality improvement project to improve quality of end-of-life care in the ICU; it was approved by the IRB of Jena University Hospital (no. 2964-11/10). Additional ethical approval for this study was not considered necessary, since student participants gave written consent and could decline to participate.

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  1. Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Lena Dorner, Helga Skupin, Katrin Gugel & Christiane S. Hartog

  2. Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

    Lena Dorner, Daniel Schwarzkopf & Christiane S. Hartog

  3. Institute of Psychosocial Medicine and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany

    Swetlana Philipp

  4. Clinic for Palliative Care, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Winfried Meissner

  5. SkillsLab, Jena University Hospital, Bachstraße 18, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Stefan Schuler

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Dorner, L., Schwarzkopf, D., Skupin, H. et al. Teaching medical students to talk about death and dying in the ICU: feasibility of a peer-tutored workshop. Intensive Care Med 41, 162–163 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3541-z

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