55% of ICU survivors are not fully recovered a year after admission, with significant health-related quality of life impairment, in Dutch study

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IMAGE: HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN R- AND NR-GROUP AT BASELINE, THREE, SIX, AND TWELVE MONTHS AFTER ADMISSION, WITH VISUAL INDICATION OF HEALTHY REFERENCE VALUE PER DOMAIN OF THE RAND-36 QUESTIONNAIRE (ABBREVIATIONS: PF, PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING; SF, SOCIAL FUNCTIONING; RP, ROLE PHYSICAL; RE, ROLE EMOTIONAL; MH, MENTAL HEALTH; VT, VITALITY; BP, BODILY PAIN; GH, GENERAL HEALTH PERCEPTION; HC, HEALTH CHANGE). view more 

CREDIT: BEUMELER ET AL., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/)

55% of ICU survivors are not fully recovered a year after admission, with significant health-related quality of life impairment, in Dutch study

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273348

Article Title: Long-term health-related quality of life, healthcare utilisation and back-to-work activities in intensive care unit survivors: Prospective confirmatory study from the Frisian aftercare cohort

Author Countries: The Netherlands

Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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JOURNAL

PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0273348 

ARTICLE TITLE

Long-term health-related quality of life, healthcare utilisation and back-to-work activities in intensive care unit survivors: Prospective confirmatory study from the Frisian aftercare cohort

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

7-Sep-2022