Patient and family engagement in patient care and research in Canadian intensive care units: a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

While patient and family engagement may improve clinical care and research, current practices for engagement in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs) are unknown.

Methods

We developed and administered a cross-sectional questionnaire to ICU leaders of current engagement practices, facilitators, and barriers to engagement, and whether engagement was a priority, using to an ordinal Likert scale from 1 to 10.

Results

The response rate was 53.4% (124/232). Respondents were from 11 provinces and territories, mainly from medical surgical ICUs (76%) and community hospitals (70%). Engagement in patient care included bedside care (84%) and bedside rounds (66%), presence during procedures/crises (65%), and survey completion (77%). Research engagement included ethics commi

SUBMITTER: Burns KEA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640777 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature