Core competencies in critical care for general medical practitioners in South Africa: A Delphi study.
S D MaasdorpF ParukK de VasconcellosC GrionI JoubertG M JoyntN KalafatisS E LapinskyJ LipmanM L N G MalbrainB MraraG A RichardsM G L SpruytE van der MerweJ L VincentL J van der MerwePublished in: The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society (2023)
The study provides consensus on a list of core competencies in critical care that non-intensivist medical practitioners managing critically ill patients in healthcare settings in South Africa, especially where intensivists are not readily available, should have. The list can form the core content of training programmes aimed at improving critical care competence of general medical practitioners, and in this way hopefully improve the overall outcomes of critically ill patients in South Africa.