Authors
1 Loghman Clinical Research Development Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science (SBMU), Tehran, Iran
2 Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a paramount essential part of each hospital, which the most critically ill patients are treated and taken care by the highest experienced physicians and nurses' with the most advanced equipment in an appropriate and adequate space (1, 2). Those with different scopes of practice work more or less independently, in ways that might not best serve the needs of patients and their families (3). In such situations, lake of harmony, coordination, and consensus among the clinicians is the major source of human error, which is the eighth leading cause of deaths in the ICU (4). The applying shared decision making models (SDMMs), is one of the saviors' approaches to harmonize and optimize the coordination and communication among the clinicians and can prevent the dreaded and catastrophic human errors. Shared decision making models have traditionally been understood to be the sharing of responsibility and control over medical decisions between patients, families, nurses, and physicians (5) and from many years ago, the models were introduced in the developed countries... (Read more...)