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Better Living Quality for Intensive Care

healthmanagement.org November 15, 2017

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Aiming to bring “Better Living in Intensive Care” for both patients and caregivers, the French Intensive Care Society issued guidelines to promote quality of life for ICU. As the largest premier reference and teaching hospital in France, CHU de Toulouse experimented with some of the most pioneering approaches to improve life in ICU. These include inviting musicians to play classical music in the care area every week to ease patients in and reduce caregiver burnout.

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