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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2009 Feb 13;24(4):629.e1–629.12. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2008.10.003

Table 1.

Barriers to family meetings in the ICU

  1. Competing demands on physicians’ time

  2. Involvement of multiple specialists in care of critically ill patients

  3. Inadequate training of physicians in communication skills

  4. Differences in culture and language

  5. Emotional stresses for clinicians

  6. Lack of dedicated space for family meetings

  7. Ill-defined goals for family meetings