General practitioner perspectives on a shared-care model for paediatric patients post-intensive care: A cross-sectional survey

While paediatric critical illness mortality rates in Australia are declining, the growing cohort of paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) survivors means an increasing number of children facing substantial health challenges after their discharge from intensive care. General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in provision of comprehensive health care to children and families  and are ideally positioned to provide developmental surveillance and support the care of both the child and family following critical illness.
Source: Australian Critical Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research