Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Discuss current guidelines for communication of prognosis with surrogate decision makers for severely ill patients
2. Discover the evidence base for interventions that improve communication for critically ill patients
3. Discuss recent clinical trials of communicating prognosis and new insights from those studies

Faculty

Shannon Carson, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

 

Faculty Disclosure
None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.