To the Editor: While clinicians often communicate with patients and families, documentation of these conversations is inconsistent. Documentation is critical for continuity of patient care, medicolegal reasons and research,1 and is particularly important in the intensive care unit (ICU), where discussions regarding prognosis and withdrawal of care occur frequently. There are scant published data on documentation of conversations with patients in ICUs and their families.
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