Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: What patients think about ICU follow-up services: a qualitative study. | Available online http content 13 2 R46 Research What patients think about ICU follow-up services a qualitative study Suman Prinjha1 Kate Field1 and Kathy Rowan2 1DIPEx Research Group Department of Primary Health Care University of Oxford Rosemary Rue Building Old Road Campus Headington Oxford OX3 7LF UK _ __ intensive Care National Audit Research Centre ICNARC Entrance A Tavistock House Tavistock Square London WC1H 9HR UK Corresponding author Suman Prinjha sbprinjha@ Received 2 Sep 2008 Revisions requested 21 Oct 2008 Revisions received 15 Jan 2009 Accepted 1 Apr 2009 Published 1 Apr 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R46 doi cc7769 This article is online at http content 13 2 R46 2009 Prinjha et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction UK policy recommendations advocate the use of intensive care unit ICU follow-up services to help detect and treat patients physical and emotional problems after hospital discharge and as a means of service evaluation. This study explores patients perceptions and experiences of these services. Methods Thirty-four former ICU patients were recruited throughout the UK using maximum variation sampling to achieve as broad a range of experiences of the ICU as possible. Participants were interviewed at home by a qualitative researcher unconnected to their hospital care. Interviews were recorded and transcribed for analysis. We report a qualitative thematic analysis of patients experiences of ICU follow up. Results Former patients said they valued ICU follow-up services which had made an important contribution to their physical emotional and psychological recovery in terms of continuity of care receiving information
