Patients' lived body experiences in the intensive care unit and beyond - a meta-ethnographic synthesis.

Introduction: Physical therapists supporting patients in intensive care unit (ICU) rehabilitation can improve their clinical practice with insight in patients' lived body experiences.

Objective: To gain insight in patients' lived body experiences during ICU stay and in recovery from critical illness.

Methods: Through a comprehensive systematic literature search, 45 empirical phenomenological studies were identified.

Autonomy in stroke rehabilitation: the perceptions of care providers in nursing homes.

Twenty-seven health care providers from three nursing homes were interviewed about the autonomy of stroke patients in rehabilitation wards. Data were analysed using the grounded theory method for concept development recommended by Strauss and Corbin. The core category 'changing autonomy' was developed, which identifies the process of stroke patients regaining their autonomy (dimensions: self-determination, independence and self-care), and the factors affecting this process (conditions (i.