A Core Outcome Set for Research Evaluating Interventions to Enable Communication in Patients With an Artificial Airway: An International Delphi Consensus Study (Comm-COS).
Amy Freeman-SandersonMartin B BrodskyCraig DaleAnushua GuptaKimberley HainesMary Beth HappNicholas HartBronwyn HemsleyLaura IstanboulianPeter SpronkRebecca SullivanAnna-Liisa SuttLouise RosePublished in: Critical care medicine (2024)
This is the first COS to specifically focus on communication for critically ill adults. Limitations for operationalization include selection of measures to use with these outcomes. Identification of suitable measures and adoption of the Comm-COS in future trials will help establish effective interventions to ameliorate the highly prevalent and negative experience of communicative incapacity.