Access to and perceived value of post-ICU follow-up: an international cross-sectional survey of ICU professionals and adult critical illness survivors
Anne-Françoise Rousseau, Susannah Leaver, Kristina Fuest, Victoria Metaxa, Guy François, Bernard Lambermont, Stefan J. Schaller, Richard Rezar, Margo M.C. van Mol, Michael Beil · 2026
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Description
Anne-Françoise Rousseau and co-authors survey how the world follows up its intensive care survivors, asking both the clinicians and the patients. Surviving critical illness often leaves a tangle of weakness, cognitive trouble, and distress called post-intensive care syndrome. Structured follow-up exists in some places and not others. Their 2026 international survey runs two matched questionnaires.
Two hundred seventy-six professionals from forty-three countries answered, along with one hundred six survivors. Fewer than half of units reported offering follow-up at all, and only some survivors who had it were told what it was for. Perceived value runs ahead of actual access on both sides of the bed. ICU leaders get a world map of a service everyone praises and few deliver.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anne-Françoise Rousseau, Susannah Leaver, Kristina Fuest, Victoria Metaxa, Guy François, Bernard Lambermont, Stefan J. Schaller, Richard Rezar, Margo M.C. van Mol, Michael Beil |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |