Emergency Inter-Hospital Transfer of Children to PICUs in the United Kingdom: Qualitative Exploration of Parents' Experiences of Retrieval Teams.

Objectives: Each year in the United Kingdom there are around 5,000 inter-hospital transfers of critically ill children into PICUs. There are few published descriptions of what this experience is like for parents. The objective was to describe parents' experiences of the inter-hospital transfer of their critically ill child to a PICU.