How to communicate with family members of the critically ill in the intensive care unit: A scoping review
How to communicate with family members of the critically ill in the intensive care unit: A scoping review
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如何与重症监护病房的重症患者家属沟通:范围界定审查
DOI:
10.1016/j.iccn.2022.103383
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Tsubaki Michihiro
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作者:
Ito Yoshiyasu;Tsubaki Michihiro
We read with interest the recently published article titled “How to communicate with family members of the critically ill in the intensive care unit: A scoping review” by Reifarth et al.(2022). This study mapped current approaches to communication with patient families and provided important implications for the future development and implementation of communication paths in intensive care units. However, while Reifarth et al.(2022) recommend a structured interprofessional framework with standardized tools based on empathic communication strategies as a communication strategy to decrease the symptoms of post-intensive care syndrome families (PICS-F), this needs further discussion and consideration. Here, we present a discussion of this consideration. Azoulay et al.(2002) and Lautrette et al.(2007) discussed the possibility of structural communication reducing the risk of PICS-F. This is evident from the results of a recent study by Kentish-Barnes et al.(2022), in which empathic and structural communication strategies, especially at the end of life, were found to reduce the risk of PICS-F. However, there is also evidence that strategic communication did not reduce the risk of PICS-F, as in the study by White et al.(2018). Such findings differ from the evidence of Lautrette et al.(2007) and Kentish-Barnes et al.(2022), and how exactly can such differences be explained? To better understand this, we need to quantitatively ascertain how the intervention changed care processes surrounding family communication in the ICU, as White et al.(2018) argued was a limitation of their study. How the processes surrounding family communication that were altered by the intervention affected the family's cognitive evaluations resulting from their ICU experience (eg, satisfaction with patient and family care, perceptions of patient death) and reduced the risk of PICS-F also needs to be clarified. In other words, there is a research gap in identifying the mechanisms through which strategic communication can reduce the risk of PICS-F.Undoubtedly, the study conducted by Reifarth et al.(2022) mapped the existing approaches to communication with critically ill family members in the intensive care unit along with corresponding implementation requirements and benefits. In the present study, Reifarth et al.(2022) used a scoping review as the study design; however, the primary purpose of a scoping review is to identify research gaps, and our discussion provides further insight into research gaps that occur during communication with families in the ICU.