Clinician and patient perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to physical rehabilitation in intensive care: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study is to explore patient, relative/carer and clinician perceptions of barriers to early physical rehabilitation in intensive care units (ICUs) within an associated group of hospitals in the UK and how they can be overcome.

Design

Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and thematic framework analysis.

Setting

Four ICUs over three hospital sites in London, UK.

Participants

Former ICU patients or their relatives/carers with personal experience of ICU rehabilitation. ICU clinicians, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, involved in the delivery of physical rehabilitation or decisions over its initiation.

Primary and secondary outcomes measures

Views and experiences on the barr

SUBMITTER: Woodbridge HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10632869 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature