Prevalence and predictors of shared decision-making in goals-of-care clinician-family meetings for critically ill neurologic patients: a multi-center mixed-methods study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (#H00016916) and University of Pittsburgh (#PRO09050285). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsB.L. received personal fees for serving on the Ethics Advisory Council of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, outside the scope of this project. J.S. has received funding support from NIH PETAL NETWORK 1U01HL122989-01 and CDC-ASTER No. 75D30119C05670, outside the scope of this project. S.M. has received personal speaking honoraria from the American Academy of Neurology. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests B.L. received personal fees for serving on the Ethics Advisory Council of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, outside the scope of this project. J.S. has received funding support from NIH PETAL NETWORK 1U01HL122989-01 and CDC-ASTER No. 75D30119C05670, outside the scope of this project. S.M. has received personal speaking honoraria from the American Academy of Neurology. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Dr. Prasad and Dr. Ge were each funded by the American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Research Scholarship. Dr. White was funded by NIH/NHLBI: K24HL148314. Dr. Muehlschlegel was funded by NIH/NINR R21NR020231 and NIH/NICHD K23HD080971. This project was additionally supported by the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Clinical and Translational Science which is funded by the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UL1TR000161). Collection of data occurred under the parent ECALI R01, NIH/NHLBI R01HL094553."