“…More than half (55%) of our respondents stated that their institutions lack a standard protocol to implement PS and 89% said they were unaware of legal regulations in Brazil about the practice 11 . The lack of guidelines in PS, the various barriers to the implementation of bioethics committees in Brazil, given their importance in advising decision-making and the dignity of the person 35 , the lack of specific training, and the difficulty of communication with the family could increase the possibility of professional exhaustion and errors in the conduct of clinical practice and ethical management, creating greater risk to the provision of end-of-life care. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies consider the rate of error of physicians' use of PS and its correlation to the absence of specific guidelines in PC.…”