Concerns of surrogate decision makers for patients with acute brain injury: A US population survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether groups of surrogates for patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) with poor prognosis can be identified based on their prioritization of goals-of-care (GOC) decisional concerns, an online survey of 1,588 adults recruited via a probability-based panel representative of the US population was conducted.

Methods

Participants acted as a surrogate for a GOC decision for a hypothetical patient with SABI and were randomized to 1 of 2 prognostic scenarios: the patient likely being left with a range of severe functional disability (SD) or remaining in a vegetative state (VS). Participants prioritized a list of 12 decisional concerns via best-worst scaling. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to discover decisional groups.

Results

The comple

SUBMITTER: Hwang DY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282883 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature