RATIONALE: Post-intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up clinics have emerged as hubs of
innovation to provide ICU survivors and their families individualized care for long-term …

Background: Survivors of critical illness experience high rates of serious health-related
suffering. The delivery of palliative care may assist in decreasing this burden for survivors …

Background: Survivors of critical illness often experience profound changes in their lives
after the intensive care unit (ICU). Although there is promise seen in the increased survival …

Objective: Although successful models for palliative care delivery and quality improvement
in the intensive care unit have been described, their applicability in surgical intensive care …

Intensive care unit (ICU) admissions are often accompanied by many physical and
existential pressure points that can be extraordinarily wearing on patients and their families …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Delivery of palliative care in the ICU will be hampered until studies incorporate outcomes
that are: responsive to and reflective of variations in care, and multi-faceted (with patient …

RATIONALE: The Critical Illness Recovery Center (CIRC) clinic was created to deliver
outpatient interdisciplinary care to survivors of critical illness and their families at risk for post …

Objective: Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty
about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we …

Objective To examine the needs of adult survivors of critical illness through a lens of
palliative care. Research methodology A qualitative study of adult survivors of critical illness …