Updates to referring clinicians regarding critically ill children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit: a state-wide survey.

ABSTRACT: Background Front-line clinicians are expected to make accurate and timely diagnostic decisions before transferring patients to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) but may not always learn their patients' outcomes. We evaluated the characteristics of post-transfer updates received by referring clinicians regarding PICU patients and determined preferences regarding content, delivery, and timing of such updates. Methods We administered an electronic cross-sectional survey to Iowa clinicians who billed for ≥5 pediatric patients or referred ≥1 patient to the University of Iowa (UI) PICU in the year before survey administration. Results One hundred and one clinicians (51 non-UI, 50 UI-affiliated) responded. Clinicians estimated that, on average, 8% of pediatric patients they saw over 1 year

SUBMITTER: Cifra CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7732519 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature