Participant retention in follow-up studies of intensive care unit survivors - A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To synthesize participant retention data and related reporting in studies evaluating post-hospital outcomes of survivors of critical illness after an intensive care unit (ICU) stay.

Review method used

A synthesis of literature following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews checklist.

Data sources

PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry. Hand searched reference lists and personal files of relevant narrative and systematic review articles.

Review methods

Articles were screened by pairs of independent reviewers. Similarly, data were abstracted by pairs of data collectors, with conflicts resolved by consen

SUBMITTER: Young DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11452564 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature