Sustainment of a patient flow intervention in an intensive care unit in a regional hospital in Australia: a mixed-method 5-year follow-up study

摘要

In 2014, an escalation plan and morning handover meetings were implemented in an intensive care unit (ICU) to reduce access block for post-operative care. In this study, the improvement intervention is revisited 5 years on with the objective to see if the changes are sustained and to understand factors contributing to sustainability.