Written Care Summaries Facilitate Communication Between Families and Providers of ICU Patients: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: ICU providers may invite families to participate in daily rounds to inform them of the patient's condition and to support their emotional well-being. Daily written summaries of care may provide complementary benefits.

Design

Qualitative interviews with surrogates of ICU patients who received daily written summaries of care.

Setting

Single, urban academic medical center.

Patients/subjects

A convenience sample of 30 surrogates of nondecisional, medical ICU patients.

Interventions

Daily written summaries detailed each of the patient's main ICU problems, the presumed causes of each of the problems, and the medical team's plan to address each of the problems for each ICU day.

Measurements and main results

There were four ways that written summaries affected th

SUBMITTER: Bulger JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8280084 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature