Making end-of-life decisions is a painful and difficult process; one that can be intensified by
cultural differences between physicians and their patients. The objective of this study was to …

PURPOSE: To qualitatively explore the process of the provision of futile care in Canadian
intensive care units (ICUs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A mailed, semistructured survey …

Background Quality end-of-life care has emerged as an important concept in industrialized
countries. Discussion We argue quality end-of-life care should be seen as a global public …

CHINESE CANADIANS FORM ONE OF THE LARGEST GROUPS in the Canadian cultural
mosaic. Many of the assumptions implicit in a Western autonomy-based approach to …

Objective: To describe the adaptive behavior and functional outcomes, and health-related
quality of life of children who were urgently admitted to the ICU. Design: Prospective …

In recent years, it has become possible for the end of life to be a negotiated event, particularly
in the intensive care unit. A multitude of often unidentified and poorly understood factors …

The Amazon is the most concentrated expression of life on Earth and it is clearly threatened.
Illegal deforestation and the setting of fires, expanding soy and beef agribusiness, and rapid …

Worldwide, 56 million people die each year, 85% of these in developing countries. 1 2 Yet
little is known about the quality of care they receive at the end of their lives. The movement for …

From the social sciences, we know the space between life and death is historically and
culturally constructed, fluid and open to dispute. The definition of death has cultural, legal, and …

Objective To describe the issues faced, and how they were addressed, by the University of
Toronto Critical Care Medicine Program/Joint Centre for Bioethics Task Force on Appropriate …