Patient and carer experience of hospital-based rehabilitation from intensive care to hospital discharge: mixed methods process evaluation of the RECOVER randomised clinical trial
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Date
2016-08-01
Citation
Ramsay, P., Huby, G., Merriweather, J., Salisbury, L., Rattray, J., Griffith, D. and Walsh, T. (2016) ‘Patient and carer experience of hospital-based rehabilitation from intensive care to hospital discharge: mixed methods process evaluation of the RECOVER randomised clinical trial’, BMJ Open, 6(8), p. e012041. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012041.
Abstract
Objectives: To explore and compare patient/carer
experiences of rehabilitation in the intervention and
usual care arms of the RECOVER trial
(ISRCTN09412438); a randomised controlled trial of a
complex intervention of post-intensive care unit (ICU)
acute hospital-based rehabilitation following critical
illness.
Design: Mixed methods process evaluation including
comparison of patients' and carers' experience of usual
care versus the complex intervention. We integrated
and compared quantitative data from a patient
experience questionnaire (PEQ) with qualitative data
from focus groups with patients and carers.
Setting: Two university-affiliated hospitals in Scotland.