Barriers and Facilitators to End-of-Life Care Delivery in ICUs: A Qualitative Study.

Objectives: To understand frontline ICU clinician's perceptions of end-of-life care delivery in the ICU.

Design: Qualitative observational cross-sectional study.

Setting: Seven ICUs across three hospitals in an integrated academic health system.

Defining conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication in an open surgical intensive care unit: a qualitative study.

Objective: Poor interdisciplinary care team communication has been associated with increased mortality. The study aimed to define conditions for effective interdisciplinary care team communication.

Design: An observational cross-sectional qualitative study.

The gap between hospital-based violence intervention services and client needs: A systematic review.

Background: Survivors of intentional interpersonal violence face social challenges related to social determinants of health that led to their initial injury. Hospital-based violence intervention programs reduce reinjury. It is unclear how well they meet clients' reported needs.

A qualitative study of how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing in multidisciplinary intensive care units.

Background: Better information sharing in intensive care units has been associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality. This study explored how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing in 4 intensive care units in a single large urban, academic medical center.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted to understand how team characteristics and leadership are associated with information sharing.

Is the Implementation of an Interprofessional Communication Smart Phone Application Associated With Improved Survival Among Critically Ill Surgical Patients?

Introduction: Patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) have high rates of mortality and morbidity. Improved communication between providers within ICUs may reduce morbidity. The goal of this study is to leverage a natural experiment of the temporally staggered implementation of a smart phone application for interprofessional communication to quantify the association with postoperative mortality and morbidity among critically ill surgical patients.