Enhancing Implementation of Complex Critical Care Interventions through Interprofessional Education.

ABSTRACT: Background: Many critical care interventions that require teamwork are adopted slowly and variably despite strong evidence supporting their use. We hypothesize that educational interventions that target the entire interprofessional team (rather than professions in isolation) are one effective way to enhance implementation of complex interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU). Objective: As a first step toward testing this hypothesis, we sought to qualitatively solicit opinions about team dynamics, evidence translation, and interprofessional education as well as current knowledge, attitudes, and practices surrounding the use of one example of a team-based practice in the ICU-preventive postextubation noninvasive ventilation (NIV). Methods: We conducted a qualitative

SUBMITTER: Rak KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature