Research Faculty


Dr Hye Ri Choi is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing of the University of Hong Kong. She is a registered nurse with extensive clinical experience in an intensive care unit in South Korea from 2010 to 2015.
Dr Choi completed her MSc and PhD in the School of Health in Social Science (Nursing Studies) at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on experiences with withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Her research interests centre on end-of-life care, intensive care, and qualitative methodologies of ethnography and thematic synthesis.
Dr Choi currently serves as an Early Career Researcher Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Clinical Nursing and Editorial Review Board Member for the Global Qualitative Nursing Research. She continues to contribute to the advancement of nursing research and practice, particularly in the areas of end-of-life care and critical care nursing.
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Intensive and Critical Care
Funding Scheme | Project Title | Approved Amount (HK$) |
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Health and Medical Research Fund, Health Bureau | Unfolding the Context of Life-sustaining Treatment in Critical Care Settings: Nurses’ and Physicians’ Experiences When a Patient is Dying | 499,992 |
- Choi HR, Ho MH, Lin CC*. Family member’s perceptions of and experiences with technology in intensive and critical care unit: a thematic synthesis. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. 2025 May 9;89:104037. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2025.104037
- Choi HR, Ho MH, Lin CC*. Treatment futility: Continuation or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. 2024 October 22;86:103813. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2024.103813
- Choi HR, Chu HN, Jia S, Liu X, Wang T, Lin CC*. Family perspectives on and experiences with advance care planning in nursing homes: a thematic synthesis. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2024 September 2;3(81):1116–1129. Available from: doi: 10.1111/jan.16383
- Choi HR, Ho MH, Lin CC*. Navigating tensions when life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn: a thematic synthesis of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2024 February 7;33(6):2337-2356. Available from: doi: 10.1111/jocn.17059
- Choi HR, Ho MH, Lin CC*. Futile life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit - nurse and physician experiences: meta-synthesis. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 2023 November 29;14(1), 36-46. Available from: doi: 10.1136/spcare-2023-004640
- Choi HR, Lin CC*. Can digital health close the health equity gap in palliative care? Cancer Nursing. 2023 June;46(4):251. Available from: doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001247
- Choi HR, Park HS, Hong YE, Kim YA*. The lived experience of colorectal cancer patients with a temporary ileostomy and the patient’s perception of the Ostomy nurses’ educational interventions. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2023 April 18;31(5):1-11. Available from: doi: 10.1007/s00520-023-07748-w
- Lee JJ, Choi HR, Choi EPH, Ho MH, Lok KYW, Ho M, Lin CC, Fong DYT*. Psychometric Evaluation of Korean version of COVID-19 Fear Scale (K-FS-8): a population based cross-sectional study. Plos One. 2023 March 9;18(3):e0282589. Available from: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282589.
- Ahn JY, Kwon SH, Choi HR*. Experiences of South Korean mothers of children with medical complexity under long-term hospitalization. Nursing Open. 2022 October 30;10(3):1840-1851. Available from: doi: 10.1002/nop2.1446
- Choi HR*, Rodgers S. Tocher J, Kang SW. Nurse’s, physician’s and family member’s experiences of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment process in an intensive care unit. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2022 October 10;32(15-16):4827-4842. Available from: doi: 10.1111/jocn.16556
- Early Career Researcher Editorial Board Member – Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Editorial Review Board Member – Global Qualitative Nursing Research