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Lower Health-Related Quality of Life in Polytrauma Patients: Long-Term Follow-Up After Over 5 Years.
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Functional Outcomes In Trauma Study - A Combined Retrospective and Prospective Cohort Study to Investigate Functional Outcomes Following Major Trauma.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Patient-reported outcome measures within European cohorts of severely injured patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Pooled it
- Parameters influencing health-related quality of life after severe trauma: a systematic review (part II).European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024Pooled it
- Health-related quality of life after severe trauma and available PROMS: an updated review (part I).European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023Pooled it
- Assessment of patient-reported outcomes after polytrauma - instruments and methods: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- Injury-related variation in patient-reported outcome after musculoskeletal trauma: a systematic review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2020Pooled it
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- Comparison of long-term patient-reported outcome and quality of life 10 years after severe trauma versus polytrauma.PloS one · 2026Article
- Perspectives on adherence to prescribed home exercises after polytrauma: A qualitative study.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2025Article
- The NACA score predicts mortality in polytrauma patients before hospital admission: a registry-based study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Long-term functional outcomes in polytrauma: a fundamentally new approach is needed in prediction.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024Article
- A cross-sectional study of the relationship between injuries and quality of life, psychological distress, sleeping problems, and global subjective health in adults from three Norwegian counties.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2023Article
- Pre-Trauma Pain Is the Strongest Predictor of Persistent Enhanced Pain Patterns after Severe Trauma: Results of a Single-Centre Retrospective Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- [Rehabilitation after multiple traumata].Der Orthopade · 2021Review
- A study of patients' quality of life more than 5 years after trauma: a prospective follow-up.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2021Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients After Surgically Treated Midface Fracture: A Comparison with the Croatian Population Norm.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2020Article
- The long-term outcomes and health-related quality of life of patients following blunt thoracic injury: a narrative literature review.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2018Review
- Thoracoscopic anterior stabilization for thoracolumbar fractures in patients without spinal cord injury: quality of life and long-term results.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2018Article
- Longer-term quality of life following major trauma: age only significantly affects outcome after the age of 80 years.Clinical interventions in aging · 2018Article
- Defining pain in newborns: need for a uniform taxonomy?Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Although trauma-associated mortality has fallen in recent decades, and medical care has continued to improve in many fields, the quality of life after experiencing polytrauma has attracted little attention in the literature. This group of patients suffer from persisting physical disabilities. Moreover, they experience long-term social, emotional, and psychological effects that limit/lower considerably their quality of life.We analyzed retrospective data on 147 polytraumatized patients by administering written questionnaires and conducting face-to-face interviews 6 ± 0.8 years after the trauma in consideration of the following validated scores: Glasgow Outcome Scale, European Quality of Life Score, Short Form-36, Trauma Outcome Profile, and Beck Depressions Inventory II.Our analysis of these results reveals that polytraumatized patients suffer from persistent pain and functional disabilities after >5 years. We also observed changes in their socioeconomic situation, as well as psychological after-effects.The rehabilitation of this particular group of patients should not only address their physical disabilities. The psychological after-effects of trauma must be acknowledged and addressed for an even longer period of time.
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