Fig 1.
ICM consultant responses about information sharing 1.
ICMC responses to question: How often would you (or a member of your ICU team) contact the GP to tell them (a) about patient death in ICU or (b) about details of patient’s ICU illness [%].
Fig 2.
ICM consultant responses about information sharing 2.
ICMC responses to question: If you (or a member of your ICU team) make contact with a patient's GP, what is the purpose of this communication? [%].
Fig 3.
GP responses about receiving information flow.
GP responses to question: If you receive information about your patient’s ICU stay, by which method(s) would you receive this information? [%].
Table 1.
Themes and subthemes in qualitative data.
Subthemes were either related to the three a priori themes (perceived benefits of information sharing; factors influencing current practice; strategies for optimal information sharing) or were discovered in the data (emergent themes).
Fig 4.
Critical illness milestones in the “whole patient journey”.
After initial hospital assessment, patients may require admission to a hospital ward or directly to an ICU. In addition, hospital ward inpatients may subsequently have an unplanned ICU admission if their clinical condition deteriorates. The three critical illness milestones when information sharing between the ICU and the patient’s GP should occur are 1 (unplanned ICU admission), 2 (patient death in ICU) and 3 (ICU discharge to hospital ward).