Beyond the walls: a review of ICU clinics and their impact on patient outcomes after leaving hospital

Australian Critical Care : Official Journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
Teresa A Williams, Gavin D Leslie

Abstract

Patients often experience physical disability, neurocognitive and/or psychological impairment after surviving ICU. The burden arising from critical illness on patients, their families and health services may be substantial. Follow-up of these patients is important and ICU clinics have been introduced for this purpose. The aim of this review was to consider current research and reports from the literature about ICU follow-up clinics and their impact on patient outcomes for those who survived hospital after suffering critical illness. The literature review included searches of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL databases. Studies were included if they described the setting up and conduct of the ICU follow-up clinic that required a visit to the clinic. Seven studies met the inclusion criteria, six of which were from the UK. The ICU follow-up clinics were predominantly nurse-led. There was no consensus on patient selection criteria for clinic attendance or method of follow-up. Clinic services were most often offered to patients who stayed in ICU three or more days. Attendance rates varied and were not reported for three studies. Attendance appeared to be influenced by the severity of illness. Cancellation and non-attendance rates were...Continue Reading

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