Outcomes of a Comprehensive Patient and Family-Centered Program in an Adult Intensive Care Unit
Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) admission is often life threatening, and may cause severe anxiety within the family system. Anxiety can impair decision-making ability. A majority of ICU patients cannot direct their own treatment; therefore, family members are often required to make major dec...
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The University of Arizona.
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228151 |