Improving Daily Patient Goal-Setting and Team Communication: The Liber8 Glass Door Project.

Objectives: To develop and implement a tool to improve daily patient goal setting, team collaboration and communication.

Design: Quality improvement implementation project.

Setting: Tertiary-level PICU.

Impressions of Early Mobilization of Critically Ill Children-Clinician, Patient, and Family Perspectives.

Objectives: To understand patient, family caregiver, and clinician impressions of early mobilization, the perceived barriers and facilitators to its implementation, and the use of in-bed cycling as a method of mobilization.

Design: A qualitative study, conducted as part of the Early Exercise in Critically ill Youth and Children, a preliminary Evaluation (wEECYCLE) Pilot randomized controlled trial.

Setting: McMaster Children's Hospital PICU, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Early Exercise in Critically Ill Youth and Children, a Preliminary Evaluation: The wEECYCLE Pilot Trial.

Objectives: To determine the feasibility of conducting a full trial evaluating the efficacy of early mobilization using in-bed cycling as an adjunct to physiotherapy, on functional outcomes in critically ill children.

Design: Single center, pilot, randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Twelve-bed tertiary care, medical-surgical PICU at McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, ON, Canada.