ArticleChest2026
Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Awareness and Communication: Surveys of ICU Providers and Patients.
Article in Chest, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Access to and perceived value of post-ICU follow-up: an international cross-sectional survey of ICU professionals and adult critical illness survivors.Annals of intensive care · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
21 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundSurvivors of critical illness often experience new or worsening impairments in various domains of health after discharge, collectively referred to as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). Although this condition is common, it remains unclear whether providers are communicating routinely about survivorship and PICS to patients and families and whether patients are remembering these conversations. RESEARCH QUESTION: How often do ICU providers discuss the concept of PICS with at-risk patients or families, and how often do patients remember being told about the concept of PICS? STUDY DESIGN AND
methodsWe distributed online surveys to ICU health care providers at 9 US institutions and to patients who survived critical illness in the preceding year at a single site.
resultsWe collected a convenience sample of 382 provider responses and 148 patient responses. The providers were registered nurses (53.7%), physician fellows or attending physicians (33%), and advanced practice providers (13.4%). Patients predominantly had been admitted to surgical (41.1%), cardiovascular (41.1%), and medical (14.4%) ICUs. We found that 73.8% of providers reported having previously heard the term post-intensive care syndrome. In comparison, only 16.6% of patients remembered ever being told the term. When asked how often they would discuss with patients or families the possibility of any new or worsening impairments after critical illness, less than one-third of providers (29.9%) said they do so at least one-half of the time. Only about one-third of patients (35.6%) remembered such conversations.
interpretationOur results show that awareness of PICS is inconsistent among providers and low among patients. Few ICU team members reported routinely talking to patients or families about the common, disabling impairments that often occur after critical illness. Few patients remembered being told about the possibility of PICS. Further investigation is needed to determine how best to improve this communication gap.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.