Shared Decision-Making With a Surrogate for Life-Sustaining Treatment of Critically Ill Patients: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative process that integrates patients' values and preferences into health care decisions. In intensive care units, patients who are critically ill often lack the capacity to make decisions, necessitating surrogates to make complex choices regarding life-sustaining treatments (LSTs).

Objective

This scoping review aims to assess the range of research conducted on surrogate SDM for LSTs among patients who are critically ill over the past decade and highlight areas where current research remains limited.

Methods

This scoping review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and adhere to the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews) reporting

SUBMITTER: Ito Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12822866 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature