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Article: Changing family members' perception of mechanical ventilation during ICU stays.(RESPIRATORY RESEARCH)(intensive care units)(Report)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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This issue's column is based on the peer-reviewed article titled "Living with dying: The evolution of family members' experience of mechanical ventilation." We'll review this article by sections to teach the scientific method for research: introduction, question and hypothesis, methods and results; discussion, reflections and future research; conclusions; and acknowledgements, conflicts of interest and bibliography.
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Introduction
The authors indicate that when an ICU patient has no previously defined health care directives, the ICU team is left to discuss life support and end-of-life care with family members. Mechanical ...