ReviewCurrent opinion in critical care2018
Outcomes of critical illness: what is meaningful?
Review in Current opinion in critical care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Omega-6 sparing effects of parenteral lipid emulsions-an updated systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
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- Patient-centred outcomes.BJA education · 2025Review
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- [Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: functional impairments of critical illness survivors].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Review
- PRACTICE: Development of a Core Outcome Set for Trials of Physical Rehabilitation in Critical Illness.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Article
- Health concerns of intensive care survivors and research participation willingness: A multicentre survey.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2024Article
- The indirect effect of nonadherence on health-related quality of life in older adults with neurological disorders: implications for clinical endpoints and interventions.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Functional recovery in a cohort of ECMO and non-ECMO acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
- Days Spent at Home and Mortality After Critical Illness: A Cluster Analysis Using Nationwide Data.Chest · 2023Article
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- An immune dysfunction score for stratification of patients with acute infection based on whole-blood gene expression.Science translational medicine · 2022Article
- Post-Intensive Care Syndrome after Critical Illness: An Imperative for Effective Prevention.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewIn this review, we will discuss efforts and challenges in understanding and developing meaningful outcomes of critical care research, quality improvement and policy, which are patient-centered and goal concordant, rather than mortality alone. We shall discuss different aspects of what could constitute outcomes of critical illness as meaningful to the patients and other stakeholders, including families and providers. RECENT
findingsDifferent outcome pathways after critical illness impact the patients, families and providers in multiple ways. For patients who die, it is important to consider the experience of dying. For the increasing number of survivors of critical illness, challenges of survival have surfaced. The physical, mental and social debility that survivors experience has evolved into the entity called post-ICU syndrome. The importance of prehospital health state trajectory and the need for the outcome of critical care to be aligned with the patients' goals and preferences have been increasingly recognized. SUMMARY: A theoretical framework is outlined to help understand the impact of critical care interventions on outcomes that are meaningful to patients, families and healthcare providers.
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