Recovery Following Intensive Care Treatment. Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
REFLECT: Recovery Following Intensive Care Treatment
IRAS ID
187602
Contact name
Peter Watkinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Oxford
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 1 days
Research summary
Most patients discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) are expected to go home. However, about 1 in 12 die unexpectedly on general wards before leaving hospital. The high death rate occurs despite hospitals using ‘early warning’ scoring systems and visits from ICU teams. A plan which reduces this death rate is urgently needed. We will use several approaches to get a clear picture of how to improve care. We will: talk to patients, relatives, and staff with experience of ward care after ICU; look at the notes of patients cared for in wards after discharge from ICU; and look at published research to find known ways of improving care in this patient group.
Patient representatives will help us use this information to design a plan to deliver better care to patients who have been in ICU, whilst they remain in hospital. This project will combine information from several sources with experts skilled at making plans work. This will allow us to make the best possible plan. After this project, We will test whether the plan could be put in place in local hospitals to see if it could be tested in a large trial.
Over 2300 lives would be saved in the UK each year if this plan worked and stopped only a quarter of the unexpected deaths in patients discharged from ICU.
REC name
Wales REC 4
REC reference
17/WA/0139
Date of REC Opinion
4 May 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion