ArticleIntensive care medicine2015
ICU survivors show no decline in health-related quality of life after 5 years.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Changes in health-related quality of life after discharge from an intensive care unit: a systematic review.Anaesthesia · 2019Pooled it
- Quality of life in survivors after a period of hospitalization in the intensive care unit: a systematic review.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensivaPooled it
- Association between acute disease severity and one-year quality of life among post-hospitalisation COVID-19 patients: Coalition VII prospective cohort study.Intensive care medicine · 2023Trial
- Electronic Patient-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life Trajectories in ICU Survivors: A Multicentre Pilot Study-Within-a-Trial Protocol.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Post intensive care syndrome: A review of clinical symptoms, evaluation, intervention.Heliyon · 2024Review
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- Long-term Survival after Critical Illness: Are We There Yet?Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022Article
- Mental health-related quality of life is related to delirium in intensive care patients.Intensive care medicine · 2022Article
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- Virtual Reality to Improve Sequelae of the Postintensive Care Syndrome: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study.Critical care explorations · 2021Article
- Health-related quality of life in ICU survivors-10 years later.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Changes in Self-Rated Health After Sepsis in Older Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Chest · 2020Article
- What matters most to sepsis survivors: a qualitative analysis to identify specific health-related quality of life domains.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Health-related quality of life in intensive care survivors: Associations with social support, comorbidity, and pain interference.PloS one · 2018Article
- Long-term recovery following critical illness in an Australian cohort.Journal of intensive care · 2018Article
- A feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial to examine the impact of the ABCDE bundle on quality of life in ICU survivors.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2018Article
- Measuring physical function after ICU: one step at a time.Intensive care medicine · 2017Article
- [Intensive care medicine-survival and prospect of life].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2017Review
- Ten things to know about critically ill elderly patients.Intensive care medicine · 2017Article
- Fatigue in intensive care survivors one year after discharge.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeSevere critical illness requiring treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) may have a serious impact on patients and their families. However, optimal follow-up periods are not defined and data on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) before ICU admission as well as those beyond 2 years follow-up are limited. The aim of our study was to assess the impact of ICU stay up to 5 years after ICU discharge.
methodsWe performed a long-term prospective cohort study in patients admitted for longer than 48 h in a medical-surgical ICU. The Short-Form 36 was used to evaluate HRQOL before admission (by proxy within 48 h after admission of the patient), at ICU discharge, and at 1, 2, and 5 years following ICU discharge (all by patients). Changes in HRQOL were assessed using linear mixed modeling.
resultsWe included a total of 749 patients (from 2000 to 2007). At 5 years after ICU discharge 234 patients could be evaluated. After correction for natural decline in HRQOL, the mean scores of four dimensions-physical functioning (p < 0.001), role-physical (p < 0.001), general health (p < 0.001), and social functioning (p = 0.003)-were still significantly lower 5 years after ICU discharge compared with their pre-admission levels, although effect sizes were small (<0.5).
conclusionsAfter correction for natural decline, the effect sizes of decreases in HRQOL were small, suggesting that patients regain their age-specific HRQOL 5 years after their ICU stay.
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