Exploring Patients’ Perceptions on ICU Diaries: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Data Synthesis

Conclusion: This qualitative synthesis shows that patients recommend having an ICU diary, enlightening benefits such as better coping with the slow recovery from critical illness, strengthening family ties, and humanizing the ICU staff. It also identifies characteristics of the diary valued by the patients, in order to standardize the ICU diary according to their perspectives, and allowing future comparability between randomized controlled trials.
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Review Article Source Type: research