Decisions Made for Incapacitated Patients Often not What Families Want (IMAGE)

Regenstrief Institute

Decisions Made for Incapacitated Patients Often not What Families Want

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Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University including Alexia Torke, M.D., (left) and Amber Comer, PhD, J.D. (right), report in a study published in JAMA Network Open that nearly half of the time medical treatments and orders received for incapacitated patients were not compatible with goals of care requested by their surrogate decision makers.

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