The Initial Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on ICU Family Engagement: Lessons Learned From a Collaborative of 27 ICUs

David Y Hwang, Qiang Zhang, Adair Andrews, Kimberly LaRose, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Harmon, Kathleen Vermoch, David Y Hwang, Qiang Zhang, Adair Andrews, Kimberly LaRose, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Harmon, Kathleen Vermoch

Abstract

Objectives: To describe the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on family engagement among ICUs participating in a multicenter collaborative promoting implementation of family-centered care projects and to report sites' experiences with the collaborative itself prior to its cancelation due to the pandemic in March 2020.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Twenty-seven academic and community ICUs in the United States and South Korea.

Subjects: Site leaders.

Interventions: Prior to March 2020, all sites had participated in 6 months of webinars, monthly calls, and listserv communication to facilitate projects and to collect preimplementation family satisfaction and clinician perception data.

Measurements and main results: Planned projects included ICU orientation initiatives (12, 44.4%), structured family care conferences (6, 22.2%), and ICU diaries (5, 18.5%). After cancelation of the collaborative, 22 site leaders (81.5%) were surveyed by phone from June 2020 to July 2020. Twenty (90.1%) reported having stopped their site project; projects that continued were 1) a standardized palliative extubation protocol and 2) daily written clinical summaries for families. Sites described significant variability in visitor restriction policies and uncertainty regarding future policy changes. Four sites (18.2%) reported that their hospital did not provide personal protective equipment to visitors. Regarding video conferencing with families, 11 sites (52.4%) reported clinicians' using their own personal devices. Two-hundred twelve family surveys and 346 clinician surveys collected prior to cancelation highlighted a broad need for family support. When leaders were asked on a scale from 0 to 10 how helpful collaborative activities had been prior to cancelation, mean response was 8.0 (sd 2.5).

Conclusions: While the collaborative model can help promote ICU family engagement initiatives, coronavirus disease 2019 has impeded implementation of these initiatives even among motivated units. ICUs need adequate personal protective equipment for visitors and video conferencing capabilities on hospital devices while strict visitor restrictions continue to evolve.

Keywords: caregivers; coronavirus disease 2019; family nursing; intensive care units; patient-centered care; quality improvement.

Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Hwang reports an honorarium payment from the Society of Critical Care Medicine for his role as the Family Engagement Collaborative Principal Investigator; he received funding from Apple Pickers Foundation. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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