Open AccessA Call for a Patient Preference Predictor
Author(s) -
David Wendler
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004949
Subject(s) - medicine , preference , distress , intensive care medicine , medline , family medicine , clinical psychology , economics , microeconomics , political science , law
When patients lose the capacity to make their own decisions, current practice relies on their family and loved ones to try to identify the treatment course the patient would have chosen for themselves. The fact that this approach has remained essentially unchanged for over 40 years raises the question of whether it successfully provides care that is consistent with patients' treatment preferences.