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Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study
OBJECTIVES: ICU providers may invite families to participate in daily rounds to inform them of the patient’s condition and to support their emotional well-being. Daily written summaries of care may provide complementary benefits. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with surrogates of ICU patients who rec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34278309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000473 |
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author | Bulger, Jeffrey L. Quinn, Thomas V. Glover, Crystal M. Basapur, Santosh Shah, Raj C. Greenberg, Jared A. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: ICU providers may invite families to participate in daily rounds to inform them of the patient’s condition and to support their emotional well-being. Daily written summaries of care may provide complementary benefits. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with surrogates of ICU patients who received daily written summaries of care. SETTING: Single, urban academic medical center. PATIENTS/SUBJECTS: A convenience sample of 30 surrogates of nondecisional, medical ICU patients. INTERVENTIONS: Daily written summaries detailed each of the patient’s main ICU problems, the presumed causes of each of the problems, and the medical team’s plan to address each of the problems for each ICU day. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: There were four ways that written summaries affected the participant’s experience: 1) providing clarity to participants regarding the patient’s condition, 2) facilitating participant understanding of the patient’s clinical course, 3) facilitating communication between participants and medical providers, and 4) facilitating communication between participants and other family members. Overarching themes were that summaries were understandable, had appropriate level of detail, and added value to the ICU experience. CONCLUSIONS: In this pilot study, family members had positive impressions of receiving daily written summaries of care. Further study is needed to determine the extent to which written communication may affect family and patient outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-82800842021-07-16 Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study Bulger, Jeffrey L. Quinn, Thomas V. Glover, Crystal M. Basapur, Santosh Shah, Raj C. Greenberg, Jared A. Crit Care Explor Original Clinical Report OBJECTIVES: ICU providers may invite families to participate in daily rounds to inform them of the patient’s condition and to support their emotional well-being. Daily written summaries of care may provide complementary benefits. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with surrogates of ICU patients who received daily written summaries of care. SETTING: Single, urban academic medical center. PATIENTS/SUBJECTS: A convenience sample of 30 surrogates of nondecisional, medical ICU patients. INTERVENTIONS: Daily written summaries detailed each of the patient’s main ICU problems, the presumed causes of each of the problems, and the medical team’s plan to address each of the problems for each ICU day. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: There were four ways that written summaries affected the participant’s experience: 1) providing clarity to participants regarding the patient’s condition, 2) facilitating participant understanding of the patient’s clinical course, 3) facilitating communication between participants and medical providers, and 4) facilitating communication between participants and other family members. Overarching themes were that summaries were understandable, had appropriate level of detail, and added value to the ICU experience. CONCLUSIONS: In this pilot study, family members had positive impressions of receiving daily written summaries of care. Further study is needed to determine the extent to which written communication may affect family and patient outcomes. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8280084/ /pubmed/34278309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000473 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | Original Clinical Report Bulger, Jeffrey L. Quinn, Thomas V. Glover, Crystal M. Basapur, Santosh Shah, Raj C. Greenberg, Jared A. Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title | Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title_full | Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title_fullStr | Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title_short | Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study |
title_sort | written care summaries facilitate communication between families and providers of icu patients: a pilot study |
topic | Original Clinical Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34278309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000473 |
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