Posted on August 27, 2017 at 5:00 AM
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Rohit Devnani |
In "How Surrogates Decide: A Secondary Data Analysis of Decision-Making Principles Used by the Surrogates of Hospitalized Older Adults" the authors explore the principles that surrogates consider most important when making decisions for older hospitalized patients. While surrogates considered many factors, they focused more often on patient well-being than on patient preferences, in contravention of our current ethical framework.