Table 1 PICOS, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria applied to literature search
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | |
|---|---|---|
Population | • Physicians | • Main focus on other health professionals such as: |
° Nurses | ||
° Allied health workers | ||
° Healthcare support staff | ||
• Main focus on patients, caregiver, family or friends | ||
• Students from health professions such as: | ||
° Medical students | ||
° Nursing students | ||
° Allied health students | ||
Intervention / Exposure | • Being involved in the care of dying patients in the adult ICU | • No involvement in care of dying patients |
° No clearly defined patient care experience (e.g. study just explores attitudes to death/ palliative care) | ||
° Patient population not dying patients (incl. “geriatrics”, patients without specification that they are dying) | ||
° Physician assisted suicide/ medical assistance in death/ suicide | ||
• Personal experience of death of family/ friend | ||
• Non-adult ICUs such as: | ||
° Paediatric ICUs | ||
° Neonatal ICUs | ||
Comparison | ||
Outcome measures | • Impact on doctors ° Emotional ° Psychological ° Behavioural ° Physical | |
Study design | • English language • Time of publication between 1990 and 2019 • No restriction on study design (qualitative, quantitative, mixed) • No restriction on geographical location of study or publication | • Grey Literature, electronic and print information not controlled by commercial publishing • Narrative literature reviews without methodology • Case reports and series, commentaries, editorials, and perspectives • Non-English publications without English translation • Unable to retrieve full article |