Nosocomial Pneumonia in the ICU: Still More Questions Than Answers.
Nosocomial Pneumonia in the ICU: Still More Questions Than Answers.
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ICU 中的院内肺炎:问题仍然多于答案。
DOI:
10.1097/ccm.0000000000003600
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
J. Cobb
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作者:
M. Schellenberg;J. Cobb
472 www.ccmjournal.org March 2019 • Volume 47 • Number 3 investigations into this important topic may explore these and other issues. Few single studies are so well constructed and conducted that they should be adopted by the critical care community without being replicated (6). This is an important concept that is increasingly being appreciated, and the current study by Bertrand et al (1) certainly needs to be replicated according to these principles (6) and replicated in different health systems. Premature long-term adoption of promising preliminary studies risk introducing redundant ritual into clinical practice when the evidence is seriously limited with a high risk of bias (7). Independent of replication, this important subject of patient autonomy should be further nuanced, developed, and explored with the ultimate goal of assisting frontline clinical practitioners to provide better care for their patients. In the interim, a judgment has to be made whether to adopt the findings of the study by Bertrand et al (1) into clinical practice as a temporary measure while further evidence is gathered and evaluated or whether informal assessment is still preferred practice. Given the results of this carefully conducted preliminary study combined with evidence from other studies in other healthcare contexts, it seems reasonable and logical to adopt formal assessment of patients’ decision-making capacities as outlined in the present study as the preferred temporary standard of care while we await further advancements in this field of study. This would seem to give the best chance of getting patient autonomy right.