Surveys

Delirium is a huge burden to patients, families, and staff. It comes with significant morbidity and increased mortality.

Our guideline published this year highlighted the importance of early detection using validated screening tools such as CAM-ICU and ICDSC, while prioritising non-pharmacological interventions as the first line of defence. We called for a coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach, as well as personalised care, structured assessments, and the minimisation of environmental triggers. 

We are pleased to see the new JLA Research Priorities for Delirium study and encourage our members to respond.  Research priorities for Delirium in the UK: A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership Survey

A UK-wide group of clinicians from across the MDT with an interest in Severe Acute Pancreatitis are looking for interested parties to participate in a research prioritisation exercise using a modified Delphi process.

Please participate to a short five minute survey to help identify and prioritize key research areas in severe acute pancreatitis.

Your insights as a healthcare professional are invaluable and will directly inform future research directions.

Your responses will remain confidential.

We would be grateful for your input and please share with any interested colleagues.

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The Models Of Safety Huddles in ICU (MOSHI) study is a national service evaluation for individual nurse managers in ICU's across the UK.

‘An exploration of the use of safety huddles in intensive care units (ICU) across the United Kingdom - a cross-sectional national e-survey' aims to to identify elements of the safety huddle that work well and could be developed into an evidence-based guideline to ensure consistent and effective practice.

The survey will ask about the content, structure, and style of the safety huddles in their clinical areas, as well as their perceptions of the huddles' effectiveness.   

This study is hosted by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and the team consists of:

Louise Stayt (Senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University)

Jody Ede (Critical Care Clinical Academic, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)

Cherry Lumley (Clinical Governance Lead, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)

Please identify a nurse unit manager or a delegated senior nurse (E.g., a shift co-ordinator) to complete the survey and forward them these details.

The survey will ask about the content, structure, and style of the safety huddles in their clinical areas, as well as their perceptions of the huddles' effectiveness.   

We request only one survey is completed for each ICU. 

The survey will take approximately 30 to 40 minutes to complete.

Or by scanning this QR code:

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Dr Jody Ede ([email protected]) or Dr Louise Stayt ([email protected]).  

Take part in a survey of vasoactive drugs in cardiogenic shock used to potentially shape the design of a clinical trial of vasoactive drugs in cardiogenic shock in the future. 

The survey is run by Peter McGuigan, consultant in ICM at Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast & Queen's University Belfast and Amy Boyle, specialty trainee in emergency medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast.

The survey contains 2 case vignettes and 7 short questions and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Responses are anonymous and may be used to inform the design of future clinical trials.

We welcome responses from the whole of the multidisciplinary team but recognize that many of the questions will be more relevant to respondents from a medical background. 

Your personal information will not be collected and data will be stored on the Queen's University Belfast REDCap server. 

Take part in this short survey on what dose of renal replacement therapy colleagues are prescribing, and whether they would support a future trial investigating lower doses - it takes 5 minutes to complete.

Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is routinely administered in Intensive Care Units in the UK. Previous studies compared different clearance rates and concluded that there was no mortality benefit with more intensive CRRT. As a result, current international guidelines recommend to deliver a CRRT dose (effluent flow rate) of 20 - 25ml/kg/hr.

However, results from observational studies (mainly from Japan) suggest that lower doses at 10-15ml/kg/hr may be sufficient without putting patients at risk but these doses have not been investigated in randomised controlled trials.

If lower doses are indeed sufficient and safe, less dialysis fluid will be needed and patients will lose less essential minerals and medications during CRRT. This will also decrease the work load of the nurses, generate less waste and save money, and it may help kidneys recovering better. Thus, there is a need for more research in this area.

In preparation for a potential future randomized controlled trial, we would like to explore current practice of CRRT dosing in ICUs in the UK.

The questionnaire is fully anonymised, held on a secure platform and no personal data will be collected. 

Consent is implied by the completion of the survey and the data will be analysed by Professor M Ostermann from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London, UK, and be used to inform a future clinical trial.

For further information, please contact Marlies Ostermann at [email protected]

University of Manchester are exploring clinical decision making in the use of antibiotic treatment for sepsis - this is to ascertain current approaches to deciding when to STOP antibiotics for critically ill adult patients hospitalised with sepsis in critical care units or after discharge to hospital wards. 

This survey is targeted at health professionals who are responsible for clinical decision making about the use of antibiotics to treat people with sepsis - we anticipate this will be doctors and advanced nurse practitioners who are able to make prescribing decisions. 

This survey is based on a previous version that was used to help design the ADAPT-Sepsis randomised controlled trial. This trial has recently been published here.

Through this survey we aim to better understand current clinical decision making practices and these will inform further implementation activities. Some of the questions ask about your practice and some ask for your views about local readiness for making practice changes.

Findings from this survey are anonymous and the data you share may be published as part of reports and academic papers. We are asking for information about the Health Board or Trust you work in so we can group responses but they will not be reported in this way.

All information will be presented at an aggregate level and we will not present data where there are low numbers for specific respondent groups. 

For detailed information about how we plan to use and store the information you share with us, please read the University of Manchester data protection and confidentiality information. 

If you have any questions about this questionnaire or the survey, please contact [email protected]

Take part in this survey which will be used to establish practice variability amongst critical care medicine physicians at consultant (or equivalent) level, in the preparation and performance of percutaneous tracheostomy procedures on critical care units across the UK. 

The survey is run by Jamie Gibson, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Worthing Hospital.

This survey will help to address this knowledge gap as there is little literature evidencing practice variability in this area and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Feedback, questions or comments can be included at the end of the survey and the survey organiser can be contacted directly at [email protected].