Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit - a Multicentre Assessment (Swiss-BEAN)

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00890513

KEK_180/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of the present study is to assess satisfaction in a large sample of next of kin in Swiss-German ICUs.

Secondary aims are to test the hypothesis that family satisfaction is related to ICU structure and process and to factors related to patients and next of kin. Further, the hypothesis will be tested that proxy assessment is possible, i.e. next of kin rate satisfaction with care similar to patients.

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• family members of patients staying for > 48 hours in an ICU

Exclusion criteria

• lack of consent,
• insufficient knowledge of German language