Identifying patients’ support needs following critical illness: a scoping review of the qualitative literature
Journal Article
King, J., O'Neill, B., Ramsay, P., Linden, M., Medniuk, A., Outtrim, J., & Blackwood, B. (2019)
Identifying patients’ support needs following critical illness: a scoping review of the qualitative literature. Critical Care, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-019-2441-6
Background: Intensive care survivors suffer chronic and potentially life-changing physical, psychosocial and cognitive sequelae, and supporting recovery is an international pr...
Patient and family centered actionable processes of care and performance measures for persistent and chronic critical illness: a systematic review.
Journal Article
Rose, L., Istanboulian, L., Allum, L., Burry, L., Dale, C., Hart, N., …Connolly, B. (2019)
Patient and family centered actionable processes of care and performance measures for persistent and chronic critical illness: a systematic review. Critical Care Explorations, 1(4), https://doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000005
Objective
To identify actionable processes of care, quality indicators, or performance measures and their evidence base relevant to patients with persistent or chronic critica...
A qualitative study of experiences of health and social care in home mechanical ventilation
Journal Article
MacLaren, J., Smith, P., Rodgers, S., Bateman, A. P., & Ramsay, P. (2019)
A qualitative study of experiences of health and social care in home mechanical ventilation. Nursing Open, 6(2), 283-292. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.213
Aim
To contribute insight into health and social care integration through an exploration of the care experiences of adults with degenerative neuromuscular conditions who use a...
Unplanned early hospital readmission among critical care survivors: a mixed methods study of patients and carers
Journal Article
Donaghy, E., Salisbury, L., Lone, N. I., Lee, R., Ramsey, P., Rattray, J. E., & Walsh, T. S. (2018)
Unplanned early hospital readmission among critical care survivors: a mixed methods study of patients and carers. BMJ quality & safety, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007513
Background
Many intensive care (ICU) survivors experience early unplanned hospital readmission, but the reasons and potential prevention strategies are poorly understood. We ...
Predicting risk of unplanned hospital readmission in survivors of critical illness: a population-level cohort study
Journal Article
Lone, N. I., Lee, R., Salisbury, L., Donaghy, E., Ramsay, P., Rattray, J., & Walsh, T. S. (2019)
Predicting risk of unplanned hospital readmission in survivors of critical illness: a population-level cohort study. Thorax, 75(11), 1046-1054. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210822
Background
Intensive care unit survivors experience high levels of morbidity after hospital discharge and are at high risk of unplanned hospital readmission. Identifying those...
Patient- and family-centered performance measures focused on actionable processes of care for persistent and chronic critical illness: protocol for a systematic review
Journal Article
Rose, L., Istanboulian, L., Allum, L., Burry, L., Dale, C., Hart, N., …Connolly, B. (2017)
Patient- and family-centered performance measures focused on actionable processes of care for persistent and chronic critical illness: protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 6, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0476-9
Background:
Approximately 5 to 10% of critically ill patients transition from acute critical illness to a state of persistent and in some cases chronic critical illness. Thes...
‘Intensive care unit survivorship’ - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness
Journal Article
Kean, S., Salisbury, L. G., Rattray, J., Walsh, T. S., Huby, G., & Ramsay, P. (2017)
‘Intensive care unit survivorship’ - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(19-20), 3111-3124. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13659
Aims & objective
To theorise ICU survivorship after a critical illness based on longitudinal qualitative data.
Background
Increasingly patients survive episodes of critical il...
Patient and carer experience of hospital-based rehabilitation from intensive care to hospital discharge: mixed methods process evaluation of the RECOVER randomised clinical trial
Journal Article
Ramsay, P., Huby, G., Merriweather, J., Salisbury, L., Rattray, J., Griffith, D., & Walsh, T. (2016)
Patient and carer experience of hospital-based rehabilitation from intensive care to hospital discharge: mixed methods process evaluation of the RECOVER randomised clinical trial. BMJ Open, 6(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012041
Objectives To explore and compare patient/carer experiences of rehabilitation in the intervention and usual care arms of the RECOVER trial (ISRCTN09412438); a randomised contr...
PReventing early unplanned hOspital readmission aFter critical ILlnEss (PROFILE): protocol and analysis framework for a mixed methods study
Journal Article
Walsh, T. S., Salisbury, L., Donaghy, E., Ramsay, P., Lee, R., Rattray, J., & Lone, N. (2016)
PReventing early unplanned hOspital readmission aFter critical ILlnEss (PROFILE): protocol and analysis framework for a mixed methods study. BMJ Open, 6(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012590
Introduction
Survivors of critical illness experience multidimensional disabilities that reduce quality of life, and 25–30% require unplanned hospital readmission within 3 mo...
Increased Hospital-Based Physical Rehabilitation and Information Provision After Intensive Care Unit Discharge: The RECOVER Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Walsh, T. S., Salisbury, L. G., Merriweather, J. L., Boyd, J. A., Griffith, D. M., Kean, S., …Ramsay, P. (2015)
Increased Hospital-Based Physical Rehabilitation and Information Provision After Intensive Care Unit Discharge: The RECOVER Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 175(6), 901. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.0822
Importance: critical illness results in disability and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but the optimum timing and components of rehabilitation are uncertain.
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