Assessing ethical climates in critical care and their impact on patient outcomes

Emmanuel Okenyi; Thomas Michael Donaldson; Andrea Collins; Ben Morton; Angela Obasi

doi:10.1183/20734735.0335-2018

Assessing ethical climates in critical care and their impact on patient outcomes

Breathe (Sheff). 2019 Mar;15(1):84-87. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0335-2018.

Authors

Emmanuel Okenyi^{1

2}, Thomas Michael Donaldson¹, Andrea Collins^{1

2

3}, Ben Morton^{2

3

4}, Angela Obasi^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK.
² Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
³ Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
⁴ Both authors contributed equally.

Abstract

Intensive care units with a "good" ethical environment are more likely to identify perceived excessive patient care. Patients with perceived excessive care were more likely to die and time to death was shorter in units with a "good" ethical environment. http://ow.ly/vnFP30neAZN.