Recovery, rehabilitation and follow-up services following critical illness: an updated UK national cross-sectional survey and progress report.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To comprehensively update and survey the current provision of recovery, rehabilitation and follow-up services for adult critical care patients across the UK.

Design

Cross-sectional, self-administered, predominantly closed-question, electronic, online survey.

Setting

Institutions providing adult critical care services identified from national databases.

Participants

Multiprofessional critical care clinicians delivering services at each site.

Results

Responses from 176 UK hospital sites were included (176/242, 72.7%). Inpatient recovery and follow-up services were present at 127/176 (72.2%) sites, adopting multiple formats of delivery and primarily delivered by nurses (n=115/127, 90.6%). Outpatient services ran at 130 sites (73.9%), predominantly

SUBMITTER: Connolly B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491421 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature