Characteristics Associated With Preferences for Parent-Centered Decision Making in Neonatal Intensive Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about how characteristics of particular clinical decisions influence decision-making preferences by patients or their surrogates. A better understanding of the factors underlying preferences is essential to improve the quality of shared decision making.

Objective

To identify the characteristics of particular decisions that are associated with parents' preferences for family- vs medical team-centered decision making across the spectrum of clinical decisions that arise in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional survey assessed parents' preferences for parent- vs medical team-centered decision making across 16 clinical decisions, along with parents' assessments of 7 characteristics of thos

SUBMITTER: Weiss EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875325 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature