PhD Confirmation Seminar - Kate Emery

The Department of Critical Care welcome you to join us for the following  PhD Confirmation Seminar:

Care Coordination for Adult Intensive Care Unit Survivors

Presenter: Kate Emery

Abstract

In Australia over 200,000 patients are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) annually. Over 90% of these patients now survive to discharge. However, up to 50% of survivors experience ongoing enduring impairments affecting their physical, cognitive, and psychological health, referred to as Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS). Post-ICU survivors experience multiple transitions in care. These include the transition from the ICU to acute wards, hospital to home, and reintegrating into primary care. For this vulnerable and multi-morbid population this can be a significant challenge for patients and caregivers to navigate. This lack of integrated care can contribute to ICU re-admission, re-hospitalisation and mortality resulting in increased hidden health care costs. There is emerging evidence that transitional care interventions may improve the integration of care for ICU survivors (patients and families). Care coordination is a relatively new intervention being investigated as a transitional care intervention. This project will inform the future implementation of a care coordination intervention and will develop the science in a critical care cohort. Through a multi-methods approach this research program will co-design a transitional care intervention and test the feasibility of this intervention via a pilot randomised controlled trial. This will inform future interventional research and scalability.

Committee Chair

Dr Stephen Warrillow

Principal Supervisor

A/Prof Kimberley Haines

Co-supervisors

Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid, Prof Susan Berney,

When

Fri 28 Nov 2025,  1.00 – 2.00 pm

Microsoft Teams

Meeting ID: 441 963 518 790 9       
Passcode: py2jb74H