Associations Between Family Member Involvement and Outcomes of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit: Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about family member involvement, by relationship status, for patients treated in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Objective

Using documentation of family interactions in clinical notes, we examined associations between child and spousal involvement and ICU patient outcomes, including goals of care conversations (GOCCs), limitations in life-sustaining therapy (LLST), and 3-month mortality.

Methods

Using a retrospective cohort design, the study included a total of 858 adult patients treated between 2008 and 2012 in the medical ICU at a tertiary care center in northeastern United States. Clinical notes generated within the first 48 hours of admission to the ICU were used with standard machine learning methods to predict patient outcomes. We used

SUBMITTER: Gray TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244649 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature