Predictors of ICU Surrogates' States of Concurrent Prolonged Grief, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Depression Symptoms.

Surrogates' concurrent bereavement distress was positively associated with clinically modifiable factors: poor quality dying and death, higher surrogate anxiety, and palliative care-commonly provided late in the terminal-illness trajectory worldwide. Social-worker involvement and a do-not-resuscitate order appeared to mitigate risk.