Aims and objectives To provide insights into what promotes and challenges inner strength
and willpower in formerly critically ill patients back home after a long‐term ICU stay …

Aims and objectives To explore aspects that promote and challenge long‐term ICU patients'
inner strength and willpower. Background Considerable research has been devoted to ICU …

Aims and objectives To explore how the presence of family and health professionals
influences long‐term critically ill patients' inner strength and willpower as an incitement to …

Becoming critically ill and in need of ventilator treatment is a considerable burden. Fear and
anxiety are natural reactions and it is not uncommon for patients to experience …

Aims and objectives To explore family members' experiences of long‐term intensive care
unit (ICU) patients' pathways towards survival and to highlight family members' efforts to …

Background As advancements in intensive care treatment have resulted in decreased
mortality rates, more attention has been given to the experience of life after critical illness …

Background Intensive care survivors suffer chronic and potentially life-changing physical,
psychosocial and cognitive sequelae, and supporting recovery is an international priority. As …

OBJECTIVES: To explore and explain the challenges, concerns, and coping modalities in
ICU-survivors living with a partner or spouse during the first 12 months post ICU discharge …

Aims and objectives To theorise intensive care unit survivorship after a critical illness based
on longitudinal qualitative data. Background Increasingly, patients survive episodes of …

OBJECTIVE: To explore former ICU patients' views on what the key components of a post
ICU rehabilitation programme should be. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Thirty five …