Intensive Care Unit Clinicians' Perspectives on Achieving Proactive Interprofessional Family Meetings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although proactive interprofessional family meetings are widely recommended as a best practice for patient- and family-centered care in intensive care units (ICUs), adherence to this recommendation is low.

Objectives

To enhance understanding of practices, barriers, and facilitators related to the conduct of family meetings from the perspective of ICU clinicians and to elicit clinicians' ideas and opinions about strategies to achieve proactive interprofessional family meetings.

Methods

Semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with ICU clinicians who were purposively selected from among a national sample. Constant comparative analysis was used to generate a matrix of themes; enrollment ceased when no new ideas emerged.

Results

Interviews were

SUBMITTER: Seaman JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332327 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature