ArticlePloS one2024
Recovery following discharge from intensive care: What do patients think is helpful and what services are missing?
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- Pooled it
- Acceptability and Fidelity of a Cognitive Rehabilitation Intervention During and After Intensive Care: A Feasibility Evaluation.Nursing in critical care · 2026Trial
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- Factors influencing the acceptability of remote multicomponent rehabilitation versus standard care following critical illness: a theory-informed qualitative study embedded within the iRehab trial.Journal of intensive care · 2026Article
- Recovery After Critical Illness: A Meta-Ethnography of Patient, Family and Staff Perspectives.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Development and initial psychometric evaluation of a questionnaire for post intensive care recovery - PIR.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2026Article
- Remote multicomponent rehabilitation compared to standard care for survivors of critical illness after hospital discharge (iRehab): a protocol for a randomised controlled assessor-blind clinical and cost-effectiveness trial.NIHR open research · 2025Article
- Development of a patient centred, structured, individually tailored, multi-component intervention to promote rehabilitation and recovery after critical illness: content, theory, and construction.NIHR open research · 2025Article
- Transition experiences of patients and families upon discharge from intensive care: a scoping review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecovery following critical illness is complex due to the many challenges patients face which influence their long-term outcomes. We explored patients' views about facilitators of recovery after critical illness which could be used to inform the components and timing of specific rehabilitation interventions.
aimsTo explore the views of patients after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU) about their recovery and factors that facilitated recovery, and to determine additional services that patients felt were missing during their recovery.
methodsQualitative study involving individual face-to-face semi-structured interviews at six months (n = 11) and twelve months (n = 10). Written, informed consent was obtained. [Ethics approval 17/NI/0115]. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed and analysed using template analysis.
findingsTemplate analysis revealed four core themes: (1) Physical activity and function; (2) Recovery of cognitive and emotional function; (3) Facilitators to recovery; and (4) Gaps in healthcare services.
conclusionPatient reported facilitators to recovery include support and guidance from others and self-motivation and goal setting, equipment for mobility and use of technology. Barriers include a lack of follow up services, exercise rehabilitation, peer support and personal feedback. Patients perceived that access to specific healthcare services was fragmented and where services were unavailable this contributed to slower or poorer quality of recovery. ICU patient recover could be facilitated by a comprehensive rehabilitation intervention that includes patient-directed strategies and health care services.
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