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Multicenter Study
Association between shared decision-making during family meetings and surrogates' trust in their ICU physician.
Although trust is central to successful physician-family relationships in ICUs, little is known about how to promote surrogates' trust of ICU physicians in this setting. ⋯ The conduct of family meetings and physicians' use of SDM behaviors during meetings were both associated with increases in surrogates' trust in the treating physician.