Quality of life after stay in surgical intensive care unit
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Quality of life after stay in surgical intensive care unit
BACKGROUND In addition to mortality, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has increasingly been claimed as an important outcome variable. The aim of this study was to assess HRQOL and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) six months after discharge from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to study its determinants. METHODS All post-operative adult patients admitted to a surgical IC...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Anesthesiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2253
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2253-7-8