End-of-life care for the critically ill: A national intensive care unit survey*
| Autor: | Marion Danis, Derek C. Angus, Mitchell M. Levy, Judith E. Nelson, David Deal, Lisa A. Weissfeld, Kathleen Puntillo, Deborah J. Cook |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Palliative care Quality Assurance Health Care Attitude of Health Personnel health care facilities manpower and services MEDLINE Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine law.invention Physician Executives Nursing Ambulatory care law Intensive care Critical care nursing Health care Humans Medicine Nurse Administrators Quality of Health Care Terminal Care business.industry Palliative Care Middle Aged Intensive care unit United States Intensive Care Units Health Care Surveys Female business End-of-life care |
| Zdroj: | Critical Care Medicine. 34:2547-2553 |
| ISSN: | 0090-3493 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/01.ccm.0000239233.63425.1d |
| Popis: | One in five Americans dies following treatment in an intensive care unit (ICU), and evidence indicates the need to improve end-of-life care for ICU patients. We conducted this study to elicit the views and experiences of ICU directors regarding barriers to optimal end-of-life care and to identify the type, availability, and perceived benefit of specific strategies that may improve this care.Self-administered mail survey.Six hundred intensive care units.A random, nationally representative sample of nursing and physician directors of 600 adult ICUs in the United States.Mail survey.We asked participants about barriers to end-of-life care (1 = huge to 5 = not at all a barrier), perceived benefit of strategies to improve end-of-life care, and availability of these strategies. From 468 ICUs (78.0% of sample), 590 ICU directors participated (406 nurses [65.1% response] and 184 physicians [31.7% response]). Respondents had a mean of 16.6 yrs (sd 7.6 yrs) of ICU experience. Important barriers to better end-of-life care included patient/family factors, including unrealistic patient/family expectations 2.5 (1.0), inability of patients to participate in discussions 2.7 (0.9), and lack of advance directives 2.9 (1.0); clinician factors, which included insufficient physician training in communication 2.9 (1.1) and competing demands on physicians' time 3.0 (1.1); and institution/ICU factors, such as suboptimal space for family meetings 3.5 (1.2) and lack of a palliative care service 3.4 (1.2). More than 80% of respondents rated 14 of 14 strategies as likely to improve end-of-life care, including trainee role modeling by experienced clinicians, clinician training in communication and symptom management, regular meetings of senior clinicians with families, bereavement programs, and end-of-life care quality monitoring. However, few of these strategies were widely available.Intensive care unit directors perceive important barriers to optimal end-of-life care but also universally endorse many practical strategies for quality improvement. |
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