Interventions to promote family member involvement in adult critical care settings: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify, appraise and synthesise evidence of interventions designed to promote family member involvement in adult critical care units; and to develop a working typology of interventions for use by health professionals and family members.

Design

Mixed-method systematic review.

Data sources

Bibliographic databases were searched without date restriction up to June 2019: MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Joanna Briggs and Cochrane Libraries. Back issues of leading critical care and patient experience journals were manually searched, as were the reference lists of included studies. All evaluation studies of relevant intervention activities were included; all research designs and outcome measures were eligible. Due

SUBMITTER: Xyrichis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8031009 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature