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- Title
Identifying intensive care unit discharge planning tools: protocol for a scoping review.
- Authors
Stelfox, Henry T; Perrier, Laure; Straus, Sharon E; Ghali, William A; Zygun, David; Boiteau, Paul; Zuege, Danny J
- Abstract
Transitions of care between providers are vulnerable periods in healthcare delivery that expose patients to preventable errors and adverse events. Patient discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) to a medical or surgical hospital ward is one of the most challenging and high risk transitions of care. Approximately 1 in 12 patients discharged will be readmitted to ICU or die before leaving the hospital. Many more patients are exposed to unnecessary healthcare, adverse events and/or are disappointed with the quality of their care. Our objective is to conduct a scoping review by systematically searching the literature to identify ICU discharge planning tools and their supporting evidence-base including barriers and facilitators to their use.
- Publication
BMJ open, 2013, Vol 3, Issue 4
- ISSN
2044-6055
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002653