Prevalence of long-term decision regret and associated risk factors in a large cohort of ICU surrogate decision makers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether surrogate decision makers regret decisions about the use of life support for incapacitated, critically ill patients remain uncertain. We sought to determine the prevalence of decision regret among surrogates of adult ICU patients and identify factors that influence regret.

Methods

We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the PARTNER 2 trial, which tested a family support intervention for surrogates of critically ill adults. At 6-month follow-up, surrogates rated their regret about life support decisions using the Decision Regret Scale (DRS), scored from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more regret. We used multiple linear regression to identify covariates associated with decision regret based on a psychological construct of regret. We construc

SUBMITTER: Andersen SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9933411 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature