title: [Information to family members of patients treated in intensive care units: suggestions for critical situations].
abstract: Physician-family communication in the Intensive Care Units. Suggestions for critical situations.The present paper originates from some critical situations in clinical practice. The aim is to give some suggestions on how to convey information to families of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units, considering also the recent contribution of the international literature on "family shared decision making", "family conferences" and family care-givers attitudes towards decision making process.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Medicina di Comunità, Università di Verona.
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Del Piccolo
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D007558:Italy; D010820:Physicians; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014342:Truth Disclosure