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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2016 Oct 28;37:224–229. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.10.018

Table 2.

Communication between the tele-ICU and ICU monitored by tele-ICU on a scale from 0–100, mean scores and [standard deviations]

Communication:
Openness		 Communication:
Accuracy* 		Communication:
Timeliness
Tele-ICU #1 (n=62) 58.1 [24.8] 58.3 [18.7] 52.2 [26.7]
Tele-ICU #2 (n=65) 62.8 [21.5] 73.1 [19.9] 46.4 [22.9]
Tele-ICU #3 (n=33) 53.0 [25.8] 67.7 [23.5] 45.8 [27.1]
Tele-ICU #4 (n=85) 55.9 [22.9] 64.3 [18.7] 44.1 [23.7]
Tele-ICU #5 (n=76) 53.1 [21.0] 58.0 [15.9] 51.5 [23.5]
Total (n=321) 56.8 [23.0] 63.8 [19.6] 48.1 [24.5]
*

Differences in communication between the tele-ICU nurses and ICU bedside nurses are significant at p<0.05