Authors and Disclosures
Andrej Michalsen, MD, MPH1, Ann C. Long, MD, MS2,3, Freda DeKeyser Ganz, PhD, RN4, Douglas B. White, MD, MAS5, Hanne I. Jensen, PhD, RN6,7, Victoria Metaxa, MD, PhD8, Christiane S. Hartog, MD, PhD9,10, Jos M. Latour, PhD, RN11, Robert D. Truog, MD12, Jozef Kesecioglu, MD, PhD13, Anna R. Mahn, RN10 and J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH2,3
1Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Medizin Campus Bodensee – Tettnang Hospital, Tettnang, Germany.
2Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
3Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, Harborview Medical Center, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
4Hadassah Hebrew University School of Nursing, Jerusalem, Israel.
5Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
6Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark.
7Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
8Department of Critical Care, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
9Patient- and Family-Centered Care, Klinik Bavaria Kreischa, Kreischa, Germany.
10Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
11School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
12Center for Bioethics, Harvard, Medical School, as well as Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
13Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Dr. DeKeyser Ganz's institution received funding from the Israel Institute of Health Policy Research, and she received funding from the Israel Higher Education Commission. Dr. Metaxa received funding from European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Truog received funding from Covance (Data Safety Monitoring Committee) and Sanofi (Data Safety Monitoring Committees). Dr. Kesecioglu reports receiving honorarium from Xenios A.G. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.