The decision-making process of transferring patients home to die from an intensive care unit in mainland China: A qualitative study of family members’ experiences

Healthcare professionals need to understand the challenges family members face when deciding to transfer a relative home to die from an intensive care unit. For example time pressures can limit the choices of family members so that to provide them with timely, ongoing, realistic updates for a greater involvement of family members in generating end of life care plans could be beneficial.¹.