Knowledge translation interventions for critically ill patients: a systematic review*.

Tasnim Sinuff1, John Muscedere, Neill K J Adhikari

  • 11Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 3Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. 4Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada. 5Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada. 6Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada. 7Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. 8Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. 9Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 10Department of Medicine, Providence Health Care and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 11Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. 12Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. 13Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. 14Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 15Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. 16Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. 17Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 18Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 19Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 20Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Critical Care Medicine
|August 14, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Knowledge translation interventions, especially protocols with education, significantly improve critical care processes in the ICU. However, these interventions did not show improvements in patient clinical outcomes.

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