Article History
Received: 25 June 2020
Accepted: 31 January 2021
First Online: 15 February 2021
Ethical approval and consent to participation
: This study was approved by Norwegian Intensive Care Registry (NICR) and the data protection officer at the hospitals included. No other ethical approval was necessary since the family members answered the questionnaire anonymously. Returned questionnaires were regarded as written informed consent. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority approved the national FSICU project (number 2009/7537) carried out by NICR and Centre for Clinical Documentation and Evaluation (CCDE).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.