Knowing Is (Only) Half the Battle

In their article, Cox and colleagues examine whether a surrogate-facing decision aid improves clinician–surrogate concordance on estimates of 1-year survival or any of several patient and surrogate outcomes for patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation and find no such benefits. The editorialists posit that interventions that merely enhance knowledge and induce deliberation may never promote better surrogate decision making.

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