Enhanced Recovery after Intensive Care (ERIC): study protocol for a German stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a critical care telehealth program on process quality and functional outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Survival after critical illness has noticeably improved over the last decades due to advances in critical care medicine. Besides, there is an increasing number of elderly patients with chronic diseases being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU). More than half of the survivors of critical illness suffer from medium-term or long-term cognitive, psychological and/or physical impairments after ICU discharge, which is recognised as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). There are evidence-based and consensus-based quality indicators (QIs) in intensive care medicine, which have a positive influence on patients' long-term outcomes if adhered to.

Methods and analysis

The protocol of a multicentre, pragmatic, stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled, quality improv

SUBMITTER: Adrion C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520839 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature