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ICD Recipients’ Understanding of Ethical Issues, ICD Function, and Practical Consequences of Withdrawing the ICD in the End‐of‐Life

The current international expert consensus statements recommend that clinicians should discuss elective implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) deactivation before implantation of the device, and then consistently during the illness trajectory. However, no previous studies have investigated predictors of ICD patients’ knowledge about end‐of‐life issues or whether knowledge influences patients’ attitudes about deactivation.