Health solutions to improve post-intensive care outcomes: a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While 80% of critically ill patients treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) will survive, survivors often suffer a constellation of new or worsening physical, cognitive, and psychiatric complications, termed post-intensive care syndrome. Emerging evidence paints a challenging picture of complex, long-term complications that are often untreated and culminate in substantial dependence on acute care services. Clinicians and decision-makers in the Fraser Health Authority of British Columbia are working to develop evidence-based community healthcare solutions that will be successful in the context of existing healthcare services. The objective of the proposed review is to provide the theoretical scaffolding to transform the care of survivors of critical illness by a synthesi

SUBMITTER: Howard AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6323758 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature