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Optimizing Critical Illness Recovery: Perspectives And Solutions From The Caregivers Of Icu Survivors, Carla M. Sevin, Leanne M. Boehm, Elizabeth Hibbert, Anthony J. Bastin, James C. Jackson, Joel Meyer, Tara Quasim, Rita N. Bakhru, Ashley A. Montgomery-Yates, Andrew Slack, Mary Still, Giora Netzer, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Kimberly J. Haines, Joanne Mcpeake

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Objectives:
To understand the unmet needs of caregivers of ICU survivors, how they accessed support post ICU, and the key components of beneficial ICU recovery support systems as identified from a caregiver perspective.

Design:
International, qualitative study.

Subjects:
We conducted 20 semistructured interviews with a diverse group of caregivers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, 11 of whom had interacted with an ICU recovery program.

Setting:
Seven hospitals in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

Interventions:
None.

Measurements and Main Results:
Content analysis was used to explore prevalent themes related to unmet needs, as well as …

What Insights Do Patients And Caregivers Have On Acute Kidney Injury And Posthospitalization Care? A Single-Centre Qualitative Study From Toronto, Canada, Samuel A. Silver, Marianne Saragosa, Neill K. Adhikari, Chaim M. Bell, Ziv Harel, Andrea Harvey, Abhijat Kitchlu, Javier A. Neyra, Ron Wald, Lianne Jeffs

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Objectives Hospitalisation with acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with short-term and long-term adverse events, but patient and caregiver experiences with AKI are not well described. We sought to better understand patient and caregiver perspectives after a hospitalisation with AKI to inform discharge strategies that may improve outcomes for this high-risk population.

Design Qualitative study with semistructured interviews.

Setting Tertiary care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Participants Adult patients (n=15) who survived a hospitalisation with Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes stage 2 or 3 AKI from May to December 2016. We also interviewed five patient caregivers. We required patients to …