[Opinion about clinical ethics consultation among intensivist physicians].

Background: Clinical ethics consultation services and their methods vary and they are seldom evaluated. Only one formal system of individual clinical ethics consultation has been reported in Chile, with a ten-year registry.

Aim: To evaluate the opinion of intensivist physicians about the contribution of clinical ethics consultation.

[A survey about the criteria for the indication of a gastrostomy in patients with advanced dementia].

Background: Decision making concerning patients with advanced dementia is complicated. The indication of a gastrostomy is among these hard decisions, especially considering that there is no consensus about its real benefit.

Aim: To explore the criteria used by Chilean physicians to indicate a gastrostomy in patients with advanced dementia.