Modifiable elements of ICU supportive care and communication are associated with surrogates’ PTSD symptoms

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 619-626

  Wendlandt, Blair ^a   Ceppe, Agathe ^a   Choudhury, Summer ^a   Cox, Christopher E ^b   Hanson, Laura C ^a   Danis, Marion ^c   Tulsky, James A ^d   Nelson, Judith E ^e   Carson, Shannon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic critical illness; Clinician communication; Post traumatic stress disorder; Supportive care; Surrogate decision maker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FAMILY CENTERED CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SHARED DECISION MAKING; SPOUSE; STUPOR; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; FAMILY RELATION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85064912313     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-019-05550-z     Document Type: Article

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