Promoting Excellence : Comprehensive Bibliography and Resource Page for Critical Care End-of-Life Issues : Psychosocial/Spiritual/Bereavement

Abbott KH, Sago JG, Breen CM, Abernethy AP, Tulsky JA. Families looking back: one year after discussion of withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining support. Crit Care Med 2001; 29:197-201.

Gore JM, Brophy CJ, Greenstone MA. How well do we care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? A comparison of palliative care and quality of life in COPD and lung cancer. Thorax 2000; 55:1000-6.

Kirchhoff KT, Walker L, Hutton A, Spuhler V, Cole BV, Clemmer T. The Vortex: Families' Experiences with Death in the Intensive Care Unit. Am J Crit Care 2002; 11:200-209.

Steinhauser KE, Clipp EC, McNeilly M, Christakis NA, McIntyre LM, Tulsky JA. In search of a good death: observations of patients, families, and providers. Ann Intern Med 2000; 132:825-32.

Swigart V, Lidz C, Butterworth V, Arnold R. Letting go: family willingness to forgo life support. Heart Lung 1996; 25:483-94.

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.