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End of life decision-making in ICUs in Croatia what have we found so far?

This contribution will give an overview of the project entitled VAL-De-END. The main objective of this research project is to conduct a study of decision-making related to the end of his life in intensive care units in Croatia in hospitals at the tertiary level health care (clinics, clinical hospitals, clinical hospital centres) and propose guidelines on the this issues. For the purpose of achieving these goals an interdisciplinary research team with experience in similar studies was created. After conducting an analysis of existing guidelines in this are research in focus groups on decision-making, attitudes and values of health staff working in intensive care units at the tertiary level of health care. A cross-section study of attitudes of health workers related to the decision-making at the end life in intensive care units at the tertiary level in Croatia with a specially designed questionnaire was also performed as well as a retrospective analysis of data on patients who have died in the intensive care units at the tertiary level of health care and to analyse therapeutic procedures and decision-making related to end of life and a prospective analysis of the decision-making procedures related to the end of life in intensive care units with specially designed instrument. A research on the representative sample of general population of the Republic Croatia was also performed in order to see what are the attitudes and values related to the decisions at the end life that are dominant in the Croatian population. This conurbation will present main findings of the project. This conurbation will present main findings of the project.

ICU, Croatia, ethical issue

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