Neonatal intensive care has been studied from an epidemiological, ethical, medical and even sociological perspective, but little is known about the impact of parental involvement in decision-making, especially in critical cases. We rely here on a comparative, case-based approach to study the parental role in decision-making within two technologically identical but culturally and institutionally...

INTRODUCTION This study aims to determine the attitudes of Asian elderly patients towards invasive life support measures, the degree of patient-surrogate concordance in end-of-life decision making, the extent to which patients desire autonomy over end-of-life medical decisions, the reasons behind patients' and surrogates' decisions, and the main factors influencing patients' and surrogates' dec...

Shared decision making combines individual patient interests and values with clinical best evidence under the guiding principle of patient autonomy. Patient decision aids can support shared decision making and facilitate decisions that have multiple options with varying outcomes for which patients may attribute different values. Given the variable psychosocial impact of skin disease on individu...

Digitalization of work leads to ever-increasing information processing requirements for employees. Agent-based decision support systems (DSS) can assist employees in tasks and decrease requirements. With increasing system capabilities, agency between the user shifts, with high autonomy DSS being able take over complete tasks. In present study, we distinguish degrees autonomy, operationalized by...

BACKGROUND In ICUs, many patients are unable to participate in decision-making regarding life-sustaining treatments. This study evaluated the opinions of family members about family and physician participation in life-sustaining treatment decisions and examined factors that influence those decisions. METHODS This was a prospective exploratory observational study that used convenience sampling...