Cracking the code of the slow code: A taxonomy of slow code practices and their clinical and ethical implications.

The ethical permissibility of the "slow code" sparks vigorous debate. However, definitions of the "slow code" that exist in the literature often leave room for interpretation. Thus, those assessing the ethical permissibility of the slow code may not be operating with shared definitions, and definitions may not align with clinicians' understanding and use of the term in clinical practice.

Trial of Therapy on Trial: Inconsistent Thresholds for Discussing Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: This study aimed to establish the degree of variability in thresholds for discussing withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies (WLST) in periviable infants among neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) personnel.

Study Design: A vignette-style survey was administered to NICU personnel at two urban NICUs assessing likelihood of discussing WLST or support for discussing WLST (on a scale from 1, not at all likely/supportive to 10, extremely likely/supportive) in 10 clinical scenarios.

Results: Response rates ranged by clinical role from 26 to 89%.

Unconscious semantic processing of polysemous words is not automatic.

Semantic processing of visually presented words can be identified both on behavioral and neurophysiological evidence. One of the major discoveries of the last decades is the demonstration that these signatures of semantic processing, initially observed for consciously perceived words, can also be detected for masked words inaccessible to conscious reports. In this context, the distinction between conscious and unconscious verbal semantic processing constitutes a challenging scientific issue.

To tell or not to tell: attitudes of transplant surgeons and transplant nephrologists regarding the disclosure of recipient information to living kidney donors.

Background: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policy regarding "Living Donation Informed Consent Requirements" only requires general disclosure of candidate health information to prospective living kidney donors. We examined attitudes of transplant surgeons and transplant nephrologists regarding greater disclosure.

Methods: Web-based and mailed surveys to explore attitudes about disclosing potential recipient health information, health-associated behaviors, and lifestyle choices to living donors.

Disclosing Health and Health Behavior Information between Living Donors and Their Recipients.

Background And Objectives: Living donor guidelines-both national and international-either do not address or are vague about what information can be shared between prospective living donors and transplant candidates, as well as when to make such disclosures and who should make them. This study explored the attitudes of donors and recipients regarding how much information they believe should be shared.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: Two Email invitations were sent by the National Kidney Foundation (national headquarters) to its Email listservs, inviting members to participate in an online survey to assess the attitudes of kidney transplant stakeholders regarding the disclosure of health and health risk behavior information.