Improving decision making in acute healthcare through implementation of an intensive care unit (ICU) intervention in Australia: a multimethod study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the implementation of an intensive care unit (ICU) intervention designed to establish rules for making ICU decisions about postsurgery beds.

Design

Preintervention/postintervention case study using a multimethod approach, involving two phases of staff interviews, process mapping and collection of administrative data.

Setting

ICU in a 700-bed regional tertiary care hospital in Australia.

Participants

31 interview participants. Phases 1 and 2 participants drawn from three groups of staff: bedside nursing staff in the ICU, ICU specialist doctors and senior management staff involved in oversight of ICU operations. Phase 2 included an additional participant group: staff from surgery and emergency departments.

Intervention

Implementation

SUBMITTER: Clay-Williams R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429927 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature