ICU Family Bereavement: Demonstrating Predictors and a Call to Improve Outcomes

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Winnie K Lau et al. Crit Care Med. 2024.

. 2024 Jun 1;52(6):982-984.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006280. Epub 2024 May 16.

¹ Both authors: Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.

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The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

Associations Between Family-Assessed Quality-of-Dying-and-Death Latent Classes and Bereavement Outcomes for Family Surrogates of ICU Decedents.
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