{"doi":"10.17605/osf.io/jnxwf","title":"Patient Navigation in Critical Illness and ICU Survivorship: Protocol for a Scoping Review","abstract":"Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to patient navigation interventions in critical illness. Introduction: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Survivors have a multitude of needs. Patient navigation (PN), originating in oncology and now used across multiple conditions, may address fragmented health and social care needs across the critical illness continuum. However, the extent to which PN activities have been incorporated into critical illness care is unclear. The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence around PN in critical illness. Methods: This review will use the scoping review framework put forth by Arksey and O’Malley, with refinements by Levac et al. and the Joanna Briggs Institute. Reporting will follow PRISMA-ScR guidance. The search strategy, developed by the investigators, will include studies (2000–present) involving adult patients along the critical illness continuum (from intensive care unit up to one-year post-discharge) and/or the family receiving a PN intervention. PN interventions will be defined as trained personnel delivering 1≥ core PN services and aligned with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requirements. We will search MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, CINAHL, CENTRAL, ClinicalTrials.gov/ICTRP, and reverse citation; grey literature will be addressed by conference proceedings, clinical trial registries, and a search of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. Using the ‘Population-Concept-Context' framework, two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts of articles. Full text review will use piloted abstraction form. Synthesis will include descriptive statistics, evidence/gap maps (activities x outcomes; stage of recovery x domains of PN), and narrative integration. Implementation outcomes will be summarized using RE-AIM. Equity will be charted using PROGRESS-Plus. Ethics and Dissemination: Ethics approval is not required. Findings will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations. Keywords: patient navigation, post-intensive care syndrome, ICU survivorship, critical care, health equity","journal":"Open MIND","year":2025,"id":587716,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9631,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1503804,"name":"Leah Everitt","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1503805,"name":"Kenneth G Bustos","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1503806,"name":"Naomi R George","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1503803,"name":"Tristen Ashly Adams","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:59:39.958043Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}