Hospital Discharge Summaries Are Insufficient Following ICU Stays: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Primary care providers (PCPs) receive limited information about their patients' ICU stays; we sought to understand what additional information PCPs desire to support patients' recovery following critical illness.

Design

Semistructured interviews with PCPs conducted between September 2020 and April 2021.

Setting

Academic health system with central quaternary-care hospital and associated Veterans Affairs medical center.

Subjects

Fourteen attending internal medicine or family medicine physicians working in seven clinics across Southeast Michigan (median, 10.5 yr in practice).

Main outcomes and measures

We analyzed using a modified Rigorous and Accelerated Data Reduction (RADaR) technique to identify gaps in current discharge summaries for patients with ICU stays, i

SUBMITTER: Hauschildt KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187199 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature