Family satisfaction with family conferences about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: increased proportion of family speech is associated with increased satisfaction.

Objective: Family members of critically ill patients report dissatisfaction with family-clinician communication about withdrawing life support, yet limited data exist to guide clinicians in this communication. The hypothesis of this analysis was that increased proportion of family speech during ICU family conferences would be associated with increased family satisfaction.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Risk factors associated with camp accidents.

Objective: Project goals included creating a database for medical incidents at a Minnesota canoe and backpacking camp and identifying those most at risk within this population using one summer's experience.

Methods: YMCA Camp Widjiwagan employed a total of 123 staff and served 725 campers in summer 2000. This resulted in 9418 camper trail days (CTD), 2497 staff trail days (STD), and 20150 participant days (PD), the evaluation units for this study.