A Qualitative Study Exploring Moral Distress in the ICU Team

Our study objectives were to determine the key sources of moral distress in diverse critical care professionals and how they manage it in the context of team-based models.Qualitative case study methodology using three recently resolved clinical cases.A medical and surgical adult ICU in a 900-bed academic, tertiary Houston hospital.Twenty-nine ICU team members of diverse professional backgrounds interviewed between March 2013 and July...