Interprofessional Team Staffing in U.S. Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT: Rationale: There is a paucity of data, and no consensus, about the composition of interdisciplinary teams of healthcare workers (HCWs) who provide care in intensive care units (ICUs). Objectives: To delineate the nature and variation of HCW staff composition in U.S. adult ICUs before the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A national survey of 574 adult ICUs inquired about ICU staffing. Two sets of survey items asked about 1) "availability to provide care" in ICUs for 11 HCW types, collapsed into six groupings; and 2) the presence in formal ICU clinical rounds of nine HCW types, collapsed into six groupings. Bedside nurses were assumed to be involved in both categories. Analysis was descriptive, seeking to examine the predominant and full range of staffing patter

SUBMITTER: Garland A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11892662 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature