Piloting an ICU follow-up clinic to improve health-related quality of life in ICU survivors after a prolonged intensive care stay (PINA): study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors often suffer from cognitive, physical and mental impairments, known as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). ICU follow-up clinics may improve aftercare of these patients. There is a lack of evidence whether or which concept of an ICU follow-up clinic is effective. Within the PINA study, a concept for an ICU follow-up clinic was developed and will be tested in a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT), primarily to evaluate the feasibility and additionally the potential efficacy.

Methods/design

Design: Pilot RCT with intervention and control (usual care) arms plus mixed-methods process evaluation.

Participants

100 ICU patients (50 per arm) of three ICUs in a university hospital (Regensburg, Germany), ≥ 18 years with an ICU

SUBMITTER: Rohr M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007452 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature