Survey burden for family members surveyed about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Family surveys are an important source of information about quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU). The burden associated with completing such surveys is not well studied.

Objectives

1) To assess the predictors of burden that families report with completing surveys for patients who died in the ICU and 2) to examine associations between quality-of-care ratings and survey burden.

Methods

Data were collected from 14 hospitals as part of a cluster randomized trial to integrate palliative care into the ICU. Survey questions included demographics, quality of dying, satisfaction with care, and overall level of burden associated with survey completion. Patient characteristics were identified from chart abstraction and death certificates. Multivar

SUBMITTER: Kross EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488148 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature