Sundberg Fredrika, Kjellsdotter Anna, Lindberg Elisabeth, Backman Emma, Israelsson-Skogsberg Åsa
Research, Education, Development and Innovation Department, Skaraborg Hospital Skövde, Skövde, Sweden.
The School of Health Sciences, Skövde University, Skövde, Sweden.
Nurs Crit Care. 2025 Jul;30(4):e70109. doi: 10.1111/nicc.70109.
There are little data on the impact of frailty on critically ill older patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) and on their characteristics and outcomes. More understanding of the longitudinal health and recovery process is needed and of the recovery traits of older patients after intensive care.
This project aims to identify characteristics and outcomes in patients 65 years or older admitted to ICUs and to explore how health and recovery is experienced after discharge, with a special focus on frailty.
This research project will conduct both retrospective and prospective data collection with a sample of approximately 3200 patients. This is a longitudinal, multicentre, prospective, observational research project with a nested cohort covering 12 months of admissions and comprising four studies. The first aims to map the characteristics of patients admitted to the ICUs, their treatments and their outcomes. The second will use questionnaires to assess their health and recovery process up to 18 months after discharge. The third and fourth studies aim to describe and understand their lived experiences using research interviews, with the fourth study including only frail patients.
The project comprises studies that seek to identify the characteristics of older people admitted to ICUs, to examine how frailty impacts them and to understand what they experience during and foremost after intensive care. The project also aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to promoting health and recovery after discharge from ICUs and to contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting health and recovery initiatives. The results need to be spread and the knowledge sprung from this project may be implemented and used by intensive care unit clinicians.
关于衰弱对重症监护病房（ICU）中接受治疗的老年重症患者的影响及其特征和预后的数据较少。需要更多地了解纵向健康和康复过程以及老年患者在重症监护后的康复特征。
本项目旨在确定入住ICU的65岁及以上患者的特征和预后，并探讨出院后健康和康复情况，特别关注衰弱情况。
本研究项目将对约3200名患者进行回顾性和前瞻性数据收集。这是一个纵向、多中心、前瞻性观察研究项目，有一个嵌套队列，涵盖12个月的入院病例，包括四项研究。第一项研究旨在梳理入住ICU患者的特征、治疗方法及其预后。第二项研究将使用问卷评估他们出院后长达18个月的健康和康复过程。第三项和第四项研究旨在通过研究访谈描述和了解他们的生活经历，第四项研究仅纳入衰弱患者。
该项目包括多项研究，旨在确定入住ICU的老年人的特征，研究衰弱如何影响他们，并了解他们在重症监护期间尤其是之后的经历。该项目还旨在了解促进ICU出院后健康和康复的促进因素和障碍，并为支持健康和康复倡议的越来越多的证据做出贡献。研究结果需要传播，该项目产生的知识可能会被ICU临床医生实施和应用。
