… of interventions in order to improve the safety and efficiency of patient handover between
intensive care unit (ICU) and general ward healthcare professionals at ICU discharge. …

… aspects of care between the critical care and ward setting. Communication disconnect
exemplified what the participants perceived to be a significant barrier to caring for patients and …

… Our national study differs from many previous qualitative studies in ICUs which were
conducted by health-care professionals in their own work setting. Recruitment to the study was …

… Every ICU should have clarity in what routines to use when moving an intensive care patient
to the ward. That is … Focus of nursing in critical and acute care settings: prevention or cure?. …

… settings such as Coronary Care Units, intensive care units … the critical care areas, ie functions
from the time a patient is … to the general wards (and conversely from the general wards into …

… referrals to intensive care of patients on general wards in a teaching hospital was undertaken
… poor assessment of critically ill patients, delays in response and inappropriate treatment. …

… of being treated in intensive care units in comparison with general hospital wards regarding
pressure ulcer … Patients were treated in a wide variety of hospital settings across Germany. …

… Patients with no social contact while in the intensive care unit … Reducing transfer anxiety will
reduce patient and family … and after transfer from an intensive care setting to a general ward. …

… those patients in an ICU setting. Of the ten … The results of this study show that patients with
septic shock originating on a general ward had delays in receiving intensive care. It took >1 hr (…

… general ward care) of the same patient. The second best treatment option in our setting would
be a regular hospital … if admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) or general ward (base case…