Physicians' attitudes in relation to end-of-life decisions in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: a national multicenter survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

End-of-life decisions for neonates with adverse prognosis are controversial and raise ethical and legal issues. In Greece, data on physicians' profiles, motivation, values and attitudes underlying such decisions and the correlation with their background are scarce. The aim was to investigate neonatologists' attitudes in Neonatal Intensive Care Units and correlate them with self-reported practices of end-of-life decisions and with their background data.

Methods

A structured questionnaire was distributed to all 28 Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Greece. One hundred and sixty two out of 260 eligible physicians answered anonymously the questionnaire (response rate 66%). Demographic and professional characteristics, self-reported practices and opinions were included i

SUBMITTER: Chatziioannidis I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7681959 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature