Ethics Priorities of the Curing Coma Campaign: An Empirical Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Curing Coma Campaign (CCC) is a multidisciplinary global initiative focused on evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prognostication for patients who are comatose due to any etiology. To support this mission, the CCC Ethics Working Group conducted a survey of CCC collaborators to identify the ethics priorities of the CCC and the variability in priorities based on country of practice.

Methods

An electronic survey on the ethics priorities for the CCC was developed using rank-choice questions and distributed between May and July 2021 to a listserv of the 164 collaborators of the CCC. The median rank for each topic and subtopic was determined. Comparisons were made on the basis of country of practice.

Results

The survey was completed by 93 respond

SUBMITTER: Lewis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10034145 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature