A Randomized Trial of a Family-Support Intervention in Intensive Care Units

2018482 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Douglas B. White · Intensive Care Society

Derek C. Angus · Intensive Care Society

Anne‐Marie Shields

Praewpannarai Buddadhumaruk

Caroline Pidro

Cynthia Paner · Dr. August Wolff (Germany)

Elizabeth Chaitin

Chung-Chou H. Chang · University of Pittsburgh

Francis Pike

Abstract

Among critically ill patients and their surrogates, a family-support intervention delivered by the interprofessional ICU team did not significantly affect the surrogates' burden of psychological symptoms, but the surrogates' ratings of the quality of communication and the patient- and family-centeredness of care were better and the length of stay in the ICU was shorter with the intervention than with usual care. (Funded by the UPMC Health System and the Greenwall Foundation; PARTNER ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01844492 .).

Topics & Keywords

Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Infant Development and Preterm Care

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Peace, Justice and strong institutions

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 378, Issue 25, pp. 2365-2375

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1802637

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