'Intensive care unit survivorship' - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness.
Susanne KeanLisa G SalisburyJanice RattrayTimothy S WalshGuro HubyPamela RamsayPublished in: Journal of clinical nursing (2017)
For healthcare professionals and policymakers, it is important to realise that recovery and transitioning through to survivorship happen within an individual's time frame, not a schedule imposed by the healthcare system. Currently, there are no care pathways or policies in place for critical illness survivors that would support intensive care unit survivors and their families in the transitions to survivorship.