Yoanna Skrobik, Queen's University

Research

Caregiver Critical Illness Depression Mental Health Burden Post-Traumatic Stress

Latest papers

What Is Safe Sedation in the ICU?
The New England journal of medicine · 2019 · senior author
Methodologic Innovation in Creating Clinical Practice Guidelines
Critical Care Medicine · 2018
Analgesia in Neurocritical Care: An International Survey and Practice Audit.
Critical care medicine · 2016 · senior author

All 6 publications

Latest funding

Virtual Family Participation in Adult ICU Rounds: A Pilot Randomized Trial (The V-FAMILY Trial)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$76,500
RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$932,280
Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$501,076

All 8 grants and awards

6 publications.

01

What Is Safe Sedation in the ICU?

Coursin DB, Skrobik Y

The New England journal of medicine2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1056/nejme1906522 PMID: 31242368

02

Methodologic Innovation in Creating Clinical Practice Guidelines

Devlin JW, Skrobik Y, Rochwerg B, Nunnally ME, Needham DM, Gelinas C, Pandharipande PP, Slooter AJC, Watson PL, Weinhouse GL

Critical Care Medicine201886 citations

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000003298

03

Analgesia in Neurocritical Care: An International Survey and Practice Audit.

Zeiler FA, AlSubaie F, Zeiler K, Bernard F, Skrobik Y

Critical care medicine2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000001602 PMID: 26983164

04

Workplace Blame and Related Concepts: An Analysis of Three Case Studies.

Davidson JE, Agan DL, Chakedis S, Skrobik Y

Chest2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1378/chest.15-0332 PMID: 25928049

05

Randomized ICU trials do not demonstrate an association between interventions that reduce delirium duration and short-term mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Al-Qadheeb NS, Balk EM, Fraser GL, Skrobik Y, Riker RR, Kress JP, Whitehead S, Devlin JW

Critical care medicine2014

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000224 PMID: 24557420

06

The development and validation of a novel questionnaire to measure patient and family satisfaction with end-of-life care: the Canadian Health Care Evaluation Project (CANHELP) Questionnaire

Heyland DK, Cook DJ, Rocker GM, Dodek PM, Kutsogiannis DJ, Skrobik Y, Xuran Jiang, Day AG, Cohen SR

Palliative Medicine201075 citations

DOI: 10.1177/0269216310373168

Virtual Family Participation in Adult ICU Rounds: A Pilot Randomized Trial (The V-FAMILY Trial)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Goldfarb, Michael

Keywords: Family Engagement; Icu Rounds; Patient-Oriented Research; Virtual Care Participation

$76,500

RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Team Grant: TiC - Stream 1 - PHSI solutions for transitions in care gaps

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Lawless, Bernard; Bayley, Mark T; Flannery, John F; Flockhart, Linda; Misak, Cheryl; Rush, Raphael; Tran, Jake

Keywords: Caregivers Outcomes,; Feasibility And Implementation; Health Care System; Knowledge Translation And Exchange; Patient And Family Engagement; Patient-Centred Outcomes; Post-Icu Care Continuum; Transitions In Care

$932,280

Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bosma, Karen J; Brochard, Laurent J

Keywords: Patient-Ventilator Interaction; Patient-Ventilator Synchrony/ Dyssynchrony; Proportional Assist Ventilation; Randomized Controlled Trial; Recovery From Critical Illness; Respiratory Muscle; Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation

$501,076

Delirium Assessment in the Critically Ill: A Patient and Family-Centered Approach

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Fiest, Kirsten M; Oxland, Peter R; Stelfox, Henry T

Keywords: Assessment; Critical Care; Delirium; Family-Centered; Focus Group; Intensive Care Unit; Validation

$24,913

Relaxation for critically ill Patient Outcomes and Stress-coping Enhancement (REPOSE): Clinical Trial of an Integrative Intervention to improve critically ill patients' delirium and related outcomes.

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Papathanasoglou, Elisavet

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Critical Care Nursing; Guided Imagery; Integrative Therapy Intervention; Relaxation

$187,302

Improving the caregiver's experience of critical illness with sense-making

Nominated PICIHR2016Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Skrobik, Yoanna

Keywords: Caregiver; Critical Illness; Depression; Mental Health Burden; Post-Traumatic Stress

$9,300

Development and Evaluation of a Family-Partnered Care Pathway for Critically Ill Older Patients

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Team Grant: Late Life Issues

Principal investigators: Stelfox, Henry T; Heyland, Daren K

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Cohort Study; Critical Illness; Family Engagement; Focus Groups; Intensive Care Unit; Older Patients; Patient Centred Care; Survey

$1,388,754

Realities, Expectations and Attitudes to Life Support Technologies in Intensive Care for Octogenarians: The REALISTIC 80

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Heyland, Daren K

Keywords: Aging; Clinical Decision Making; Outcomes Research; Quality Of Care; Quality Of Life; Satisfaction

$800,444

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Critical Care Medicine
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
School of Nursing
Medicine
Anesthesia
Rehabilitation Science
Other

Co-authors at Queen's University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Francis Bernard

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Deborah Cook

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2010

Bram Rochwerg

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Michelle Kho

Rehabilitation Science

1 shared papers, latest 2018

John Centofanti

Anesthesia

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Céline Gelinas

School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2018

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