Declaration
Ethical Approval and Consent to participate: Ethical approval for Phases
I and II was attained under REB15-1891. Phase III was conducted as a
quality improvement project as per ARECCI guidelines and as set forth in
the Helsinki Declaration.
Authors’ contributions: Each of the study authors has made significant
contributions to the manuscript. Selena Au, Amanda Roze des Ordons, and
Tom Stelfox are critical care physicians with the University of Calgary
and were all responsible for study conception, protocol design, and data
interpretation. Kenneth Blades is a qualitative researcher with the
University of Calgary’s Ward of the 21st Century Research & Innovation
Centre with an MA in sociology, and contributed to methodological
design, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
Selena Au, Amanda Roze des Ordons, and Kenneth Blades analyzed and coded
qualitative interview and focus group data. All authors were responsible
for iterative manuscript writing, critical review for intellectual
content and have approved the final version to be published.
Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge all ICU family
members and healthcare providers who have leant their experience and
expertise to this body of work. Additionally we would like to thank Kyla
Brown and Jenny Kelly for their research assistance, Kara Plotnikoff and
Carmen Hiploylee for their assistance in figure and supplemental
material configuration, and Miranda Kavalench for administrative
support.
Figure 1. Key structures and processes foundational to patient
and family centered rounds are summarized as a toolkit with 6 key
practices.