Funding for shared-decision making on the ICU

5 July 2018

The department of Intensive Care Medicine received a grant of 488,000 euro from the National Health Care Institute (Zorginstituut Nederland – ZIN, within the program ‘Het gebruiken van uitkomstinformatie voor Samen Beslissen’) to improve shared-decisions regarding admission and treatments on the ICU using patient-reported outcomes (PROMs).

Every day, ICU physicians facing difficult decisions about which patients should be admitted to the ICU and which ICU treatments to start or stop, without knowing the consequences for patients’ well-being years after ICU-admission. In 2016, the MONITOR-IC cohort study started collecting patient reported outcomes from thousands of ICU survivors to measure the effect and added value of ICU care. With this ZIN grant, data from the MONITOR-IC will be translated into decision aids in order to support informed shared decision-making on the ICU.
 
Within the project (starting September 2018), prediction models and decision aids will be developed in close collaboration with patients, relatives and ICU physicians and nurses. Subsequently, the models and aids will be tested in practice, resulting in advises for patients and health care providers how to facilitate and support shared-decision making on the ICU.
 
The grant is awarded to the project leaders of the MONITOR-IC study, dr. Marieke Zegers and dr. Mark van den Boogaard, and their research team (www.monitor-ic.nl).

Marieke Zegers and Mark van den Boogaard are both members of theme Healthcare improvement science.

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