TY - JOUR
T1 - Know your patient
T2 - Psychological drivers of decision making
AU - Emanuel, Linda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Emanuel; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
PY - 2012/9/24
Y1 - 2012/9/24
N2 - This is a commentary on "Attitudes of legal guardians of ventilated ICU patients toward the process of decision making associated with invasive nonlife-saving procedures" by Michael Kuniavsky, Freda DeKeyser Ganz, David M Linton, and Sigal Sviri. Kuniavsky and colleagues report that decision-making for the seriously ill is difficult for the patients' legal guardians, many of whom would be comfortable with doctors making the decisions. This commentary offers that accurate predictions about treatment choices may be derived by using assessments that characterize the key drivers of individual's decision making, thus relieving some of decision makers' burdens. This approach could also usher in an era of assessing quality of care for the seriously ill by whether the care matches patient goals.
AB - This is a commentary on "Attitudes of legal guardians of ventilated ICU patients toward the process of decision making associated with invasive nonlife-saving procedures" by Michael Kuniavsky, Freda DeKeyser Ganz, David M Linton, and Sigal Sviri. Kuniavsky and colleagues report that decision-making for the seriously ill is difficult for the patients' legal guardians, many of whom would be comfortable with doctors making the decisions. This commentary offers that accurate predictions about treatment choices may be derived by using assessments that characterize the key drivers of individual's decision making, thus relieving some of decision makers' burdens. This approach could also usher in an era of assessing quality of care for the seriously ill by whether the care matches patient goals.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84910037580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84910037580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/2045-4015-1-37
DO - 10.1186/2045-4015-1-37
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 23006772
AN - SCOPUS:84910037580
SN - 2045-4015
VL - 1
JO - Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
JF - Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
IS - 1
M1 - 37
ER -