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ArticleJournal of palliative medicine2026

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Intensive Care Unit Consultation.

Ankita Mehta, Karen Bullock, Jillian L Gustin, Rachel A Hadler, Judith E Nelson, William E Rosa, Jennifer B Seaman, Shelley E Varner-Perez, Douglas B White

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Article in Journal of palliative medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors.

Ankita MehtaBrookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Karen BullockDepartment of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
Jillian L GustinDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Rachel A HadlerDepartment of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Judith E NelsonSupportive Care Service, Department of Medicine, Critical Care Service, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
William E RosaDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0680-8911
Jennifer B SeamanDepartment of Acute & Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Shelley E Varner-PerezSpiritual Care and Chaplaincy Department, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Douglas B WhiteDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

The Patient-Reported Outcomes, Community-Engagement and Language (PRO-CEL) CoreP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · 1985 to 2025
$88.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intensive care unit (ICU) is distinct in population, culture, and palliative care needs. Critical illness and ICU stays can be extremely distressing for patients and their loved ones. Providing palliative care in the ICU, although a standard component of comprehensive care delivery, involves understanding the individual culture of each specific ICU, collaboration with multiple providers, and interfacing with surrogate decision makers while patients may not be able to communicate and are undergoing interventions that are unfamiliar to them and loved ones. These top ten tips aim to support palliative care clinicians providing consultation in ICUs. Specifically, these tips address initial relationship building with ICU clinicians and teams to foster effective collaboration, establishing goals of care by assessing health-related values, explaining treatment options, individualizing prognostic discussions, and managing end-of-life symptoms for patients while in the ICU and throughout ICU discharge transition.

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Intensive Care UnitsPalliative CareReferral and ConsultationCommunicationHumanscritical caregoals of careintensive care unitinterprofessional collaborationpalliative careprognosisserious illness communication

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PMID40780837
PMCPMC12395537

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