Today's American Medical News reports on a new study pre-published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Family members of intensive care patients are likely to be more optimistic about their loved ones' chances of survival, regardless of how a physician presents a grim prognosis.
"Surrogates on average estimated the patient was more than twice as likely to survive than the physician did." "The most important is that it likely will lead to families requesting ongoing life-sustaining treatment, when a palliative pathway might be more appropriate." "The other thing that could come up is conflict between doctors and families."
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