Factors promoting intensive care patients' perception of feeling safe: a systematic review

摘要: Abstract Background Feeling safe in the intensive care unit is of great importance while recovering from critical illness. Moreover, feeling unsafe can result distress. In order to meet safety needs patients as well stimulate their recovery and prevent distress, nurses must be aware factors promoting patients' perception during an admission. To our knowledge, there no synthesis these available yet. Objective systematically describe that promote unit. Design A systematic review qualitative quantitative studies. Data sources PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO were searched up March 2012. Review methods Methodological quality was assessed by two authors using QualSyst tool. included studies extracted into a customised data extraction form. Results The initial search resulted 1326 records. Ultimately, eleven relevant research question review. No needed excluded because low scores. Analysis four overarching themes safe. These were: nursing care, issues, relatives, technological support. Nursing described most frequently important factor Relatives link between staff. Conclusions Nurses increase critically ill taking account this By being improve