tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Quality of life before intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Quality of life before intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival. | Available online http content 11 4 R78 Research Quality of life before intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival José GM Hofhuis1 2 Peter E Spronk1 Henk F van Stel3 4 Augustinus JP Schrijvers3 and Jan Bakker2 Open Access Department of Intensive Care Medicine Gelre Hospitals location Lukas Albert Schweitzerlaan 7334 DZ Apeldoorn The Netherlands department of Intensive Care Medicine Erasmus Medical Centre Gravendijkwal 230 Rotterdam 3015 CE The Netherlands 3Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Centre Utrecht Heidelberglaan 1 00 Utrecht 3584 CX The Netherlands department of Medical Decision Making Leiden University Medical Centre Albinusdreef 2 Leiden 2333 ZA The Netherlands Corresponding author José GM Hofhuis Received 5 Mar 2007 Revisions requested 5 Apr 2007 Revisions received 22 Jun 2007 Accepted 13 Jul 2007 Published 13 Jul 2007 Critical Care 2007 11 R78 doi cc5970 This article is online at http content 11 4 R78 2007 Hofhuis et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Predicting whether a critically ill patient will survive intensive care treatment remains difficult. The advantages of a validated strategy to identify those patients who will not benefit from intensive care unit ICU treatment are evident. Providing critical care treatment to patients who will ultimately die in the ICU is accompanied by an enormous emotional and physical burden for both patients and their relatives. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether health-related quality of life HRQOL before admission to the ICU can be used as a predictor of mortality. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study in a .