The impact of intensive care unit diaries on patients' and relatives' outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Memory gaps in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors are associated with psychiatric disorders. The ICU diaries improve the patient's factual memory of the ICU, but it is not clear if they reduce the incidence of psychiatric disorders in patients and relatives after hospital discharge. The aim of this study is to evaluate the literature on the effect of ICU diaries for patients admitted in ICU and their relatives.

Methods

Two authors independently searched the online databases PubMed, OVID, Embase, EBSCO host, and PsycINFO from inception to July 2019. Studies were included if the intervention group (ICU diary) was compared with a group with no diaries and the sample was comprised patients ≥ 18 years old admitted in the ICU for more than 24 h and their relatives. Ran

SUBMITTER: Barreto BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6916011 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature