ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to offer a series of robust and developed assessment, implementation and also aims to evaluate activities designed to improve collaboration between critical care professionals, patients and family members. It explores key issues linked to collaboration between critical care staff, patients and families. The book seeks to implementation issues, regularly providing ideas on how, where and when to implement intervention and evaluation activities. It notes how engagement with patient safety colleagues will be helpful in implementation. The book draws on considering local context to help understand the nature of local practices in order to tailor interventions that are impactful. It focuses on context that can be found in patients repeated calls for careful assessment of collaboration and family/patient involvement issues before designing and implementing an intervention.
