Kim Wiebe

TL;DR: Critical illness due to 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Canada occurred rapidly after hospital admission, often in young adults, and was associated with severe hypoxemia, multisystem organ failure, a requirement for prolonged mechanical ventilation, and the frequent use of rescue therapies.

TL;DR: Hospital-based clinicians perceive family member-related and patient-related factors as the most important barriers to goals of care discussions, and this findings can inform the design of future interventions to improve communication and decision making about goals of Care.

TL;DR: This article is written in a narrative format that allows the reader to understand the problems experienced by healthcare workers in these sites during this pandemic and offers some insight into potential pitfalls and problems that may be experienced by other centers and some potential approaches to addressing these issues.

TL;DR: The relationships between providers of assisted dying and specialists in palliative care vary, and examples exist throughout the spectrum from collegial to hostile, but slowly improving, as individual clinicians gain more experience with patients choosing assisted dying.

TL;DR: The first international roundtable on ODE was held during the 2021 WONCA family medicine conference as part of a scoping review and the aim was to document practice and related issues so as to advise patients, professionals and policymakers, aiding development of responsible guidelines and helping to navigate the issues.