title: Matters of life and death: conversations among patients, families, and their physicians.
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Cummins
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy*; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D028761:Withholding Treatment