Article: IMPROVING COMMUNICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT ABOUT END-OF-LIFE CARE REDUCES SYMPTOMS OF STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION IN FAMILY MEMBERS

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:

An intervention to improve communication between clinicians in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and family members of a dying patient significantly reduces feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression in the family members, according to a study that appears in the February 1, 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, funded in part by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), showed that this intervention also allows family members to express their emotions and arrive at a more realistic ...

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