ArticleIntensive care medicine2013
Effect of intensive care environment on family and patient satisfaction: a before-after study.
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- Family Satisfaction in a Medical College Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit (ICU)-How Can We Improve?Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2019Article
- Comparison of complaints to the intensive care units and those to the general wards: an analysis using the Healthcare Complaint Analysis Tool in an academic medical center in Taiwan.Critical care (London, England) · 2018Article
- [Communicating with families in the ICU : Background and practical recommendations].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2018Article
- Ten practical strategies for effective communication with relatives of ICU patients.Intensive care medicine · 2015Article
- Measuring family satisfaction in an Indian Intensive Care Unit.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine to what extent intensive care unit environment affects family and patient satisfaction.
methodsA before-after study was performed in one university hospital in The Netherlands, 2 months before and 2 months after the migration of an intensive care unit (ICU) with multiple beds on a ward to a newly built ICU with all single rooms. Family and patient satisfaction were determined by two surveys: family satisfaction with care in the ICU and patient satisfaction with care in the ICU, respectively.
resultsFrom 387 of 617 (63 %) discharged patients at least one survey (patient and/or family) was returned. Both family and patients were more satisfied with their overall ICU experience in the new ICU as compared with the old ICU. Mean scores for family satisfaction increased from 69.5 [standard deviation (SD) 16.6] to 74.1 (SD 15.2) for old and new ICU, respectively (p = 0.02). For patients, satisfaction rates increased from 63.6 (SD 18.9) to 69.6 (SD 18.3) for old and new ICU, respectively (p = 0.02). The largest differences on single items of the surveys were noted on environmental aspects.
conclusionsThis is the first study to quantify the effect of ICU environment on family and patient satisfaction. Family and patient satisfaction with ICU experience increased by 6 % in the new ICU environment with noise-reduced, single rooms with daylight, adapted colouring and improved family facilities.
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